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Tokuji Hayakawa
Hayakawa Tokuji (Japanese: Hayakawa Tokuji/Hayakawa Lottery, November 3, 1893 - June 24, 1980), born in Tokyo, Japan, was an industrialist and inventor, and the founder of Sharp Corporation. He is famous for his improvement of the mechanical pencil and his invention of the Tokuo buckle, a men's belt buckle that does not require punching holes in the belt. Jiangmu Xinxin, one of the three beauties of Taisho, is his half-sister.
- Category
- Entrepreneurs
- Nationality
- Japan
- Born
- 1893-11-03
- Died
- 1980-06-24
- Wikidata
- Q722643