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Sales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comtwitter.com/starbooksalesOrders: Combined Book Services Ltd. Email: orders@combook.co.ukPhone: 01892 837171Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to changewithout notice. 22/05/2024Language: EnglishPublication: 28th NOVEMBER 2024ISBN: 9788877922182Price: %u00a346.50Binding: PaperbackFormat: 246 x 195 mmExtent: 312 pp Illustrated: B&W and colour Thema: AJ PhotographyThis new book tells the story of the foundation in Japan of the Nippon Kogaku company, known nowadays more simply as Nikon, a predominant company in the field of optics and camera work.Founded in 1921 and employing German experts, the company grew to be predominant in its field, assisted by the passion for photography that grew in Japan and elsewhere in the early twentieth century.After the effects of the First World War receded and military self-sufficiency was achieved, the giant Mitsubishi company founded Nippon Kogaku K. K. to produce the optical glass necessary for high-quality microscopes, telescopes, and photographic lenses. Above all it provided \ ammunition\last day of the Pacific War, on 15th August 1945.Defeat pushed Japan to face a difficult future, but factories and foreign trade soon reopened for business. Nippon Kogaku embarked upon the path of photography and precision instruments that would contribute to it becoming a leader in the sector.ISBN 978-88-7792-218-29 7 8 8 8 7 7 9 2 2 1 8 2NIKONA JAPANESE HISTORY:FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION TO THE DIGITAL AGEGiulio Forti