The Art of Monozukuri

摘要

Aichi prefecture in the centre of Japan is the home of Japanese 'monozukuri', in Japanese, 'craftsmanship with inexhaustible enthusiasm and science'. It is also the place where major international players in the automobile, power-tools and chemical manufacturing industries have been founded. Here too, Myzox also came into being, founded upon and carrying with it all the tradition of 'monozukuri'. The founder began the company in 1950, originally as a small woodworking plant. In 1954 a licence was obtained to manufacture measuring instruments by approval of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and the company started producing wooden staves, drawing boards and products related to the surveying industry. In 1959, Mizoguchi MFG was officially established and began researching, developing and releasing many products that had not previously existed on the market. The most break-through of these was the aluminium staff, which had usually been made of wood before Mizoguchi MFG introduced aluminium in 1973.