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In October 2014, company president Takayasu Watanabe released a statement announcing the company would stop chalk production in February 2015 and sales in March 2015.
Jun 24, 2015 · Takayasu Watanabe, Hagoromo's last president. Many of our customers stocked up on our chalk before it became unavailable. We received a flood of faxes and nonstop telephone calls, and could...
Nov 17, 2020 · In 2014, Takayasu Watanabe, the grandson of the company’s founder, announced that Hagoromo would halt production, partly because of the industry’s declining fortunes and partly because of his...
Aug 22, 2020 · Earlier this year, on July 31, Takayasu Watanabe passed away in Japan. Thanks to Shin, his chalk legacy will live on.
In 2014, Takayasu Watanabe, the head of the third-generation family business and grandson of Hagoromo's founder, announced he was in very poor health and rather than saddle his three daughters with a flagging company, he would just shut down production.
Aug 11, 2019 · Founded originally as Nihon Chalk Seizosho (Japan Chalk Factory) in 1932 in Nagoya, Hagoromo Bungu (Hagoromo Stationery) had been in the same family for three generations when Takayasu Watanabe, grandson of the founder, decided in 2014 to close the business due to poor health and also the absence of a successor.
Oct 24, 2019 · As the documentary notes, the panic-buying of chalk by US mathematicians began sometime around 2015 — not long after the Japanese media reported that the ailing president of Hagoromo, Takayasu...
