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100th ANNIVERSARY

Chronology

  • 1910~20
  • 1930~40
  • 1950
  • 1960
  • 1970
  • 1980
  • 1990
  • 2000
1930
  • Hayakawa tours Hong Kong
  • Begins attaching repair notices to radios. Retailers would notify the company of repairs they did by sending back these notices to the company.
1931
  • Establishes sales agency in Hong Kong
1934
  • Establishes Shanghai office
  • Constructs Hirano Plant in Osaka
1935
  • Hayakawa Metal Works Institute Co. incorporated with capital of 300,000 yen (May 1)
  • Youths’ School Ordinance issued in Japan
1936
  • Installs intermittent belt conveyor system
  • Makes Yokohama Motor Parts Manufacturing a subsidiary
  • Changes company name to Hayakawa Metal Works Co.
  • Establishes branch offices in Taipei and Seoul
1937
  • Establishes Hayakawa Commercial School for Youth
1942
  • Changes company name to Hayakawa Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
1943
  • Head office building completed
1944
  • Establishes Hayakawa Electric branch factory
  • Establishes Izumi Plant in Izumi-cho (now Izumi City), Osaka (sold in 1948)
1945
  • Establishes Kyoto Plant in Shimogyo-ku (now Minami-ku), Kyoto (sold in 1947)
1946
  • Forms labor union
  • Designated special accounting company
1948
  • Establishes Sharp Shoji
1949
  • Released from special accounting company designation
  • Public stock offering, company listed on Osaka Securities Exchange
  • "One-of-a-Kind" Story
  • A Word from Tokuji Hayakawa, Sharp Founder
  • Chronology
  • Sharp 100-Year History