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On a related note, the Mitsubishi Group is a huge conglomerate that makes everything from cars to fighter jets to nuclear plants. Mitsubishi pens also dominate
by desdiv 7y ago
On a related note, the Mitsubishi Group is a huge conglomerate that makes everything from cars to fighter jets to nuclear plants. Mitsubishi pens also dominate the stationery market, and I just assumed that it was part of the group. But it turns out the pen maker is actually unrelated to the conglomerate[0].
To add to the confusion, both the pen maker and the conglomerate have identical English names, Japanese kanjis, and even share the same three-red-diamonds logo.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-ball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-ball
- kd5bjo 7y agoAt some point, the company was renamed from Masaki to Mitsubishi, and the logo similarity can’t be an accident. They may not be officially related, but there’s almost certainly an interesting history between the two companies.
- rtpg 7y agoIt’s likely a similar story to Mitsui, where it’s actually just a huge family and people use their name to increase trust. EDIT: turns out both companies came to this logo independently. The pen company got to it first, and the Mitsubishi Group and the pen company decided to allow mutual usage due to non-competing business areas. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3... ^ here’s some more info for Japanese speakers. Basically both companies derived their logo from various family crests and it’s a pretty common shape so it ended up like this
- Terretta 7y agoMitsubishi also manufacture money — on your behalf — as the recursively acronymed “MUFG Bank”[1,2,3,4]. // If you think it would be fascinating leading modern software engineering within this remarkable amalgamation, drop me a note. 1. MUFG Americas origin: https://mufgamericas.com/who-we-are/our-history https://mufgamericas.com/who-we-are/our-history 2. MUFG Bank origin: https://www.bk.mufg.jp/global/aboutus/origins/index.html https://www.bk.mufg.jp/global/aboutus/origins/index.html 3. UnionBank reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUFG_Union_Bank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUFG_Union_Bank 4. MUFG (M-UFJ-FG) reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_UFJ_Financial_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_UFJ_Financial_Group