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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).
Learn about the life and achievements of Tokuji Hayakawa, the visionary entrepreneur who founded Sharp Corporation in 1912. Explore his journey from pencil maker to radio inventor, television pioneer, and solar energy pioneer.
Learn about the life and achievements of Tokuji Hayakawa, who founded Sharp in 1912 and invented the Ever-Sharp pencil and Japan's first crystal radio set. He was a visionary, a humanitarian and a pioneer of consumer electronics.
After completing his metalwork apprenticeship in April 1912, Sharp founder, Tokuji Hayakawa, invents the Tokubijo snap buckle and earns his first design patent. This invention leads him to open his first metalwork shop - the beginning of Sharp.
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.
The mechanical pencil is well known today throughout the world, largely thanks to Sharp's founder Tokuji Hayakawa. By developing an original lead-thrusting device and inserting it into a metallic shaft, he revolutionized one of the world's most convenient devices.
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In 1915, Sharp founder Tokuji Hayakawa invented the innovative twist-type Hayakawa Mechanical Pencil—later dubbed the Sharp Pencil. This pencil represented the culmination of painstaking efforts by Tokuji after he had completed an apprenticeship in metalworking and had launched a business in 1912 in a crowded neighborhood of old Tokyo.
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