YKK makes the fasteners occupying 45% in
the world, and its fastener occupy 95% in Japan. The reason of name is the
abbreviation of Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisya.
At first, fastener was invented for
replacement of the string of boots at America in 1890 by Whitcomb L. Judson. It
was fragile in those days, so Yoshida Tadahiro who was the president of YKK
improved the fastener. For example, the fastener does not open without
permission. When the handle of it looks up, fastener is locked. Handle work as
a lock too. Fastener’s metal fittings were made with the detail of the micron
unit.
It is said that technical elements more
than 1200 are packed to a fastener. We can say that Japan improved American
invention.
The invention return to USA, and NASA is
using it. They use it for a space suit. It uses a watertight airtightness
fastener, and they use almost same structure fastener too in the present which
they passed through 40 years or more from Project Apollo of the 1960s. It is a
very splendid thing.
The Japanese quality is accepted in the
country where it was invented, and such a company is in Japan a lot elsewhere.
We can have a pride toward technology, and
must offer the quality to the world. Therefore we should be able to
use English which was spoken by a lot of people.
written by Shin
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