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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). He invented and patented the “Tokubijō” belt buckle in 1912 (a belt which can fasten without perforating) and invented the "Ever Ready Sharp ...
Story of Founder Tokuji Hayakawa - Chronology. 1893 - 1901. Tokuji Hayakawa's Background. 1901 - 1912. Experiencing Work and Human Kindness. 1912 - 1914. September 15, 1912: Tokuji Sets Up His Own Business. 1915 - 1923. Invention of the Hayakawa Mechanical Pencil.
Sharp founder Tokuji Hayakawa was born in 1893 in Tokyo. After apprenticing as a maker of women'hair ornaments and precision metal products, he opened his own metalworking shop in September 1912. Showing ingenuity and creativity, he invented the Ever-Sharp pencil and grew his business.
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.
Read Sharp's history of making unique products based on founder Tokuji Hayakawa's dream to "Make products that other companies want to imitate." Product Story
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.