Company Info
Company Profile
Company Profile
| Corporate name | HappyJapan Inc. |
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| Representative | CEO: Keitaro Harada President : Masayoshi Yokoo |
| Address | 3515 Tachiyagawa 3-chome, Yamagata-shi, Yamagata, 990-2251 Japan |
| Established | November 3, 1923 |
| Capital | 73 million yen |
| Number of employees | 290（as of March 2023） |
| Business activities | Manufacture, processing, sale, and repair of
Sale of components and auxiliary products |
About New Brand Mark
HappyJapan’s Monozukuri* is to create value-added functional products by integrating our customers’ wishes and our R&D technologies and by expanding our vision by which to see the world.
The design of our brand mark represents our vital willingness and spirit of innovation in Monozukuri* .
Monozukuri* literally means “making things” in Japanese but embraces the skill, spirit, and zest to produce excellent products.
The communication statement “Technology and Beyond” condenses HappyJapan’s philosophy and vision, and explicitly represents its corporate attitude to “expand happiness in the world, by using its next-generation technologies.”
*Monozukuri literally means “making things” in Japanese but embraces the skill, spirit, and zest to produce excellent products.
History
| 1923 | Founded wood pattern factory in Miya-machi, Yamagata-City. |
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| 1927 | Started casting. Name changed to Harada Casting Factory. |
| 1940 | Incorporated and changed corporate name to Harada Manufacturing Co., Ltd. |
| 1945 | Founded Happy Sewing Machine Sales Co., Ltd. |
| 1948 | Founded Tohoku Seiki Industries Co., Ltd. |
| 1953 | Changed corporate name to Happy Sewing Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd. |
| 1969 | Built Tachiyagawa Plant. |
| 1978 | Founded Taiwan Happy Sewing Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd. and started operation in Taichung, Taiwan. |
| 1985 | Changed corporate name to Happy Industrial Corporation. |
| 2000 | Aquired exclusive sales rights of SINGER Brand Sewing Machine in Japanese market. |
| 2005 | Obtained ISO9001 Certification. |
| 2010 | Obtained ISO14001 Certification. |
| 2011 | Relocated Head Office to Tachiyagawa, Yamagata-City and integrated it with plant division. Founded Shanghai Happy Trading Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China. |
| 2014 | HappyJapan Inc. was established through a merger of Happy Industrial Corporation, Tohoku Seiki Industries, Ltd., and Singer Happy Japan Co., Ltd. Constructed plant and began operation in Prachinburi Province, Thailand. |
| 2017 | Began mass production of home-use sewing machines at a plant in Thailand. |
| 2021 | Started sales of HappyJapan brand sewing machines. |
| 2023 | 100th anniversary of the company’s founding. |