SHARP

The story of SHARP began on September 15, 1912, when the young Tokuji Hayakawa rented a small room in the center of Tokyo for a metal haberdashery shop. He came up with a Western-style belt buckle called the Tokubijo. In 1915, Hayakawa released a “rotating pencil” from nickel, where the stylus was placed in a metal case. In September 1923, his pencil factory burned down during a fire. Hayakawa did not have the strength to restore the plant, and he created the new pencil factory Haykawa Metal Works in Osaka, where Sharp Corparation is now headquartered.

In 1925, Hayakawa, seeing a radio in one of the shops, decided to connect his fate with the production of radio. Hayakawa did not know anything about the principles of radio and the basics of electricity, but at his own peril and risk he tried to assemble a radio. In April of the same year, he assembled the first working radio, which was first named SHARP. Having survived the difficult war and post-war years, SHARP began to increase the production of radio receivers.

After demonstrating a television image in the United States in 1926, Tokuji Hayakawa simultaneously took up television technology. In 1951, the company demonstrated the country's first working prototype of a television, and in 1952 it entered into a licensing agreement with the American corporation RCA. The first TV model was SHARP TV3-14T.

In 1952, the company launched its first washing machine and refrigerator. In 1961, the country's first microwave oven was developed.

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