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Jun 24, 2015 · June 24, 2015 13:00 JST. Hagoromo Stationery made chalk for 82 years. We closed down the company in March voluntarily. When we made the decision to close public last October, we received a huge...
Nov 17, 2020 · In 2014, Takayasu Watanabe, the grandson of the company’s founder, announced that Hagoromo would halt production, partly because of the industry’s declining fortunes and partly because of his...
In October 2014, company president Takayasu Watanabe released a statement announcing the company would stop chalk production in February 2015 and sales in March 2015. [1] [10] [11] Watanabe, Ryuzo Watanabe's successor, mentioned reasons for the closure included the fact that "blackboards are no longer the norm in classrooms" and that ...
Aug 22, 2020 · Hagoromo was a third-generation family business. To develop an import relationship with the company, Shin first had to win the affections of Hagoromo’s president, Takayasu Watanabe.
Oct 3, 2016 · Takayasu Watanabe, 72, has closed a chalk-making business in Nagoya, central Japan, that his family had operated for more than 80 years. He sold technology, equipment and trademark rights to a...
A Korean teacher rescued Hagoromo's legacy from disappearing. Shin Hyeong-seok, a teacher in Korea, took over the manufacturing of the Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk when Takayasu Watanabe, the president of Hagoromo Stationery of Japan, was diagnosed with cancer.
May 23, 2019 · That was until an Amazon distributor started selling Fulltouch to American professors, which is how the chalk wound up in so many U.S. math departments. Five years ago, however, Hagoromo president Takayasu Watanabe announced the company would be halting production in February of 2015, and stop sales altogether the following month.
