In Memoriam: Kazuo Kashio, Casio Chairman and CEO (1929 – 2018)
Both the watch world and the electronics industry lost one of their giants this week, as Kazuo Kashio ? co-founder of Casio Computer Co. Ltd. and a driving force behind the success of the company’s most influential timepiece, the G-Shock ? passed away at the age of 89.
Kazuo Kashio, photographed at his Tokyo office in 2010
Kazuo Kashio was one of the four brothers who founded Casio Computer in 1957. The eldest of the four, Tadao Kashio, had founded the firm’s predecessor, Kasio Seisakujo, in 1946 with their father, Shigeru, in 1946. That company’s leader product was a cigarette holder called a Yubiwa pipe. After seeing early versions of electronic calculators at a Tokyo trade show in 1949, Tadao, an engineer, shifted the company’s focus, using profits from the Yubiwa pipe to invest in developing its own calculators, which would eventually become the company’s signature product. In 1957, when Kazuo and his two siblings, Toshio and Yukio, joined their older brother in the business, the firm became Casio Computer (“Casio” being an Anglicized version of the family name) and saw years of innovations, including the world’s first compact all-electronic calculator, and spectacular growth. After Tadao died in 1993, Kazuo became president and CEO, using his background in sales and marketing to further spur the company’s growth, and in recent decades put renewed emphasis on its timepiece business, which began in 1974 with the Casio...
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