Operating Company
Company Profile
| Company Name | Mikasa Co., Ltd. | |
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| Addresses | Headquarters | 2-8-1, Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan Phone: +81-3-3433-8216 (Sales Department) Phone: +81-3-3433-8221 (General Affairs Department and Purchasing Department) Fax: +81-3-3433-8229 ・About 7-minute walk from JR Hamamatsucho Station ・About 2-minute walk from Shibakoen Station on the Toei Mita subway line ・About 4-minute walk from Daimon Station on the Toei Asakusa and Toei Oedo subway lines |
| Osaka Office | 1-13-35, Higashinakajima, Higashiyodogawa-ku, Osaka 533-0033, Japan Phone: +81-6-6325-5661 (main line) Fax: +81-6-6325-5663 |
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| Date of Establishment | September 19 , 1921 | |
| Capital | 53,040,000 yen | |
| Date of Settlement | March 31 (once a year) | |
| Employees | 20 | |
| Executives | Chairman: Kosaku Asano President: Yasuhiro Asano Director: Nobuhiro Sasaki |
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| Transaction Banking | Sales Department of Head Office, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Tamachi Branch, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. Hamamatsucho Branch, Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Tokyo Branch, Shoko Chukin Bank Umeda Branch, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation |
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History
Founded by Tsunejiro Asano, the first president, Mikasa started its history as a store called Mikasa Shoten.
Mikasa undertook one challenge after another to create a business that would match what we call a "store of technology." During the process, Mikasa successfully built relationships of trust with its customers, and it still keeps those relationships alive as precious assets, together with a wealth of accumulated knowledge and expertise.
| Sep. 1921 | Tsunejiro Asano, the first president, founded Mikasa Shoten, a limited partnership company, with a capital of 5,000 yen, and started the manufacturing and sales of surveying instruments, drawing instruments, weather instruments, and weighing and measuring instruments at 2-8, Takara-cho, Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo-shi. He also started an agency business for Ginza Tamaya Shoten. |
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| May 1938 | Moved the head office to 4-1, Muromachi, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo-shi. |
| Dec. 1948 | Increased capital to 250,000 yen. |
| Jan. 1949 | Signed a Kanto Region exclusive distribution agreement with Japan Optical Industries Corporation, which started manufacturing surveying instruments. |
| Aug. 1951 | Upon the death of Tsunejiro Asano, president, Kosaku Asano took over his position. |
| Oct. 1960 | Mikasa Shoten was reorganized from a limited partnership company to a stock company. Kosaku Asano became president. |
| Apr. 1961 | Signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Japan Optical Industries Corporation (currently Nikon Corporation). |
| Mar. 1965 | Moved the head office to 2-10-4, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. |
| Apr. 1967 | Entered the semiconductor manufacturing equipment field. Started manufacturing and selling aligners and spin coaters. |
| Nov. 1970 | Changed the company name to Mikasa Co., Ltd. Moved the head office to 2-8-1, Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo. |
| Oct. 1979 | Signed a Kanto-Koshin-Etsu Region exclusive distribution agreement for industrial microscopes with Japan Optical Industries Corporation. |
| Jan. 1983 | Signed an exclusive distribution agreement for products made by Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH with Heidenhain Japan. |
| Apr. 1983 | Opened Osaka Office in Osaka City. |
| Nov. 1984 | Increased capital to 53.04 million yen. |
| Apr. 1989 | Started selling developing and etching equipment (made by Takizawa Co., Ltd.). |
| Oct. 1991 | Signed an exclusive agency agreement with Tokyo Denshi Kogyo Co., Ltd. (currently Toshiba Teli Corporation). |
| Apr. 1998 | Released the MIM-L wafer critical dimension measurement system. |
| Apr. 2001 | Started selling thin coating thickness measurement systems made by Filmetrics, Inc. in the U.S. |
| Oct. 2003 | Obtained ISO 14001 certification. |
| Sep. 2005 | Started selling microgeometry measurement instruments made by Kosaka Laboratory Ltd. |
| Nov. 2006 | Yasuhiro Asano became president. |
| Jun. 2011 | Entered the Taiwanese market through Kawakawa Co., Ltd., a local company, on a full-scale basis. |
| Feb. 2012 | Signed a distributor agreement with Ushio (Shanghai) Inc. Started entering the Chinese market on a full-scale basis. |
Service Quality
ISO14001
JQA-EM 3463, Headquarters
We obtained ISO 14001 certification on October 31, 2003.
At Mikasa Co., Ltd., a reliable company that contributes to society, we strive to reduce environmental impact through the development and sales of precision optical instruments. We aim to become an eco-friendly company in accordance with the following principles:
１．We strive to protect the global environment and prevent pollution, and also continue to improve
our environmental management system.
２．We observe environmental laws and regulations and comply with other requirements that we agreed on.
３．We take a systematic approach toward achieving our environmental objectives and goals.
Also, we regularly review our environmental objectives and goals.
４．We strive to reduce environmental impact as well as save natural resources and energy
in our business activities.
５．To comply with our environmental policy, we strive to stress the policy to all our executives and employees
and educate them about it.
We make public this environmental policy inside and outside the company.
Mikasa Co., Ltd.
Yasuhiro Asano, President
