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At 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
by kd5bjo 7y ago
At 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