Tagged With "Hayakawa"

Public Company Incorporated: 1935 as Hayakawa Metal Industrial Laboratory Employees: 60,000 Sales: ¥1.49 billion ($13.3 billion) Stock Exchanges: Tokyo Osaka Nagoya Paris Luxembourg Zurich Basel Geneva SICs: 3631 Household Cooking Equipment; 3651 Household Audio & Video Equipment; 3579 Office Machines, Not Elsewhere Classified; 3661 Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus Company History: The Sharp Corporation is one of the largest and oldest Japanese consumer goods manufacturers. Founded on...

In wartime, various controls were imposed on goods and materials, and radios were no exception. Sharp was making radios for for military aircraft, and the army. In 1942 company gets its name as SHARP from previos Hayakawa Electric Industry. The age of television in Japan began in 1953 when Sharp became the first Japanese company to mass produce TV sets. But Sharp's research into television goes back to 1931, a time when radios were just beginning to take off in Japan. Thanks to ultra-short...