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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 ...
Tokuji Hayakawa, Sharp Founder. 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. 1915 - 1926.
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.
Tokuji Hayakawa invents, manufactures and sells the Ever-Sharp Mechanical Pencil, one of the most innovative and popular writing instruments of its time. 1920 to 1924 Committed to modernization, Tokuji Hayakawa is among the first to introduce assembly line manufacturing to Japan.
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.
Tokuji Hayakawa's company held intensive courses and sessions to train its engineers and dealers quickly in the new television technology, resulting in the establishment of a comprehensive service system.
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.
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.
Founder, Tokuji Hayakawa, was awarded a patent for the "Tokubijo" snap buckle (he was 18 years old at the time). On September 15, 1912, he established a small metalworking shop in Matsui-cho, Honjo, Tokyo.
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.
