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Nov 23, 1985 · Kazuo Tashima, founder and chairman of the Minolta Camera Company, died of kidney failure Tuesday night at a hospital in Kobe, his family said today. He would have been 86...
Dec 1, 1985 · Kazuo Tashima, founder and chairman of Minolta Camera Co., has died of kidney failure at a hospital in Kobe, Japan, his family said. He died Nov. 19, within minutes of his 86th birthday.
Kazuo Tashima, who worked for a trading company operated by his father in Kobe, discovered the great possibilities of optical equipment during a visit to Europe. After returning, he established Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shoten, which would become known as Minolta in later years, on November 11, 1928, and opened its first factory in present-day ...
Minolta began modestly in 1928 when 28-year-old Kazuo Tashima agreed to represent his father's import-export company, Tashima Shoten, on a government-backed trade mission to Paris to promote Japanese silk.
Meanwhile, Kazuo Tashima, who founded the future Minolta in 1928, launched the first camera the following year. Both companies were building foundations for manufacturing independently developed products that deliver new value.
1928: Kazuo Tashima establishes Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten ("Japanese-German photo company," the precursor of Minolta Co., Ltd.). 1929: Marketed the company's first camera, the "Nifcarette" (ニフカレッテ).
Oct 31, 2018 · Kazuo Tashima not only founded Minolta, he was responsible for many of the company’s earliest successes. One company that few people would likely associate as making a Leica copy was Minolta, or as they were then called, Chiyoda Kogaku.
