Konica (16)

The name Konica was originally that of a 35mm rangefinder model presented in 1947. In August 1960, Konishiroku bought all the shares of Taisei Kōki, a minor camera maker in Itabashi, Tokyo. This moved to Tsuru, in the prefecture of Yamanashi, in 1968, and became K.K. Yamanashi Konica in 1972, then K.K. Konica Denshi  in 1983, and is today Konica Minolta Electronics Co., Ltd.