In Memoriam: Kazuo Kashio, Casio Chairman and CEO (1929 – 2018)

Both the watch world and the electronics industry lost one of their giants this week, as Kazuo Kashio — co-founder of Casio Computer Co Ltd and a driving force behind the success of the company’s most influential timepiece, the G-Shock — passed away at the age of 89 Kazuo Kashio, photographed at his Tokyo office in 2010 Kazuo Kashio was one of the four brothers who founded Casio Computer in 1957.

The eldest of the four, Tadao Kashio, had founded the firm’s predecessor, Kasio Seisakujo, in 1946 with their father, Shigeru, in 1946 That company’s leader product was a cigarette holder called a Yubiwa pipe After seeing early versions of electronic calculators at a Tokyo trade show in 1949, Tadao, an engineer, shifted the company’s focus, using profits from the Yubiwa pipe to invest in developing its own calculators, which would eventually become the company’s signature product.

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