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Sharp Corporation came into being on September 15, 1912, when founder Tokuji Hayakawa opened a metalworking business. Let us now retrace the founder’s footsteps leading up to this momentous milestone. Tokuji Hayakawa was born on November 3, 1893, at 42 Hisamatsu-cho, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo City (now Chuo-ku, Tokyo).
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Tokuji consulted with his brother, and together, they decided to dissolve Hayakawa Brothers Shokai and transfer the remaining machinery and the business itself to the company it was in debt to in order to discharge these debts.
And so, as he moved through life, from starting his own business to marriage, and the further expansion of his business, he was reunited with his sister and brother, with whom he had lost contact. He also returned to using his original family name, Hayakawa, began to work with his brother, Masaharu.
Tokuji Hayakawa (早川 徳次, Hayakawa Tokuji, November 3, 1893 – June 24, 1980) was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kōgyō (the present-day Sharp Corporation). He invented and patented the “Tokubijō” belt buckle in 1912 (a belt which can fasten without perforating) and invented the "Ever Ready Sharp ...
It began with his invention of the Tokubijo snap buckle that required no fastening holes. An inspiration taken from a movie he saw, this belt buckle became Tokuji’s first utility model design patent. With a large number of orders coming in for his innovative belt buckle, he set up his own business. However, Tokuji, who astutely judged that ...
Amid the heartbreak and hardship suffered as a victim of the Great Kanto Earthquake, Tokuji headed to Osaka in December 1923 to provide Nihon Bungu Seizo with manufacturing guidance for the Sharp Pencil. He vowed to himself that he would make a fresh start.
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sharp history & facts. "Make products that others want to imitate." Sharp founder Tokuji Hayakawa coined this phrase to embody the management concept at Sharp. In 1912, he invented the snap belt buckle and three years later brought the Ever-Sharp mechanical pencil to the market.
