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Iris Ohyama Undercuts the Giants
The Sendai company that hired the engineers Japan's appliance majors let go - and rebuilt the value shelf
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The Sendai company that hired the engineers Japan's appliance majors let go - and rebuilt the value shelf
How Osaka's other vacuum-flask house turned a 1923 workshop into a private global appliance brand
How a 1918 vacuum-flask maker from Osaka became the global benchmark for cooking rice — and why its elephant mark still sells at a premium abroad.
A global leader in tankless on-demand water heaters and gas appliances, sold in more than 80 countries