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[1] [2] The museum is the first of its type in Japan, [2] and houses approximately 40,000 items spanning Nikon's history. According to a Nikon official, the museum's purpose is to " protect the brand...[and] put out a new product that seems attractive. " [ 2 ]
Ikegami high definition video camera of NHK Kobe. Ikegami introduced the first portable 4 1/2-inch Image Orthicon tube hand-held TV camera. [1] The camera made its debut in the United States in February 1962, when CBS used it to document the launching of NASA's Friendship 7, its first crewed space mission to orbit the Earth. [1]
Nikon's Ohi plant in the Ōi district of Shinagawa, Tokyo was first built in 1918 after the formation of Nippon Kogaku K.K. in 1917. [1] Nikon's first camera, the Nikon (1946) was made in this plant. Early cameras like the Nikon I (1948), Nikon M (1949), Nikon S rangefinders and Nikon F and Nikon F2 were also made in this plant. [2]
The Metropolitan Police Department of Tokyo said five crew members of the coastguard aircraft MA722 were killed. Watch live: Japan aircraft wreckage to be removed following airport collision Skip ...
In 1848 (Edo era), a camera for daguerréotype was imported by a Dutch ship to Japan (Nagasaki, 長崎). It is said that this was the first camera in Japan. During the Edo era, import and export had been prohibited ( sakoku , 鎖国) by the Edo Government ( Edobakufu , 江戸幕府), except that only Dutch ships were permitted to export and ...
Yodobashi Camera was founded by Terukazu Fujisawa (藤沢 昭和, Fujisawa Terukazu) in 1960. The original product line up focused on cameras and photographic equipment. Fujisawa adopted a technique of opening up the entrances of his first stores in Shinjuku, Ueno and Yokohama to allow a large number of the available products to be seen at a glance, facilitating high volume sales at low pr
Tokyo Kogaku produced cameras, beginning with a 6×4.5 cm medium format model, Lord in 1937. A 127 film camera followed the next year. The Primoflex I twin-lens reflex camera came out in 1951. The Topcon 35A was unveiled in 1953. In 1960 the company produced a 6x9 press camera on order from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
After the departure of Keith Levene and Jah Wobble, Public Image Ltd consisting of John Lydon, Martin Atkins and session musicians played live at the Sunplaza on the 1 and 2 July 1983. 10 tracks from these live performances were first released on Columbia Records Japan as Live in Tokyo. [3] Iron Maiden performed here (1981, 1982, 1985, 1996 and ...