When I was working at Sankyoseiko Co., Ltd., my senior, Mr. H.Fujimoto was using a transmitter called a telex to contact each department to the New York branch and was sent out every night alone. Hitting a punch on a tape about 2 cm wide will make holes in the tape. Make this and apply to KDD (International Telegraph and Telephone Company). Because there are applications from many other trading companies, it is waiting in order. When the order arrives, it is a mechanism that flows the tape with the hole. Until the spread of submarine cables, thunder storms occurred in the way to fly by radio waves and sometimes could not be sent well, they continued the extreme work that took until midnight. Five people who joined the same year and were assigned to the export department two of them took over this job. Until we became a business man, patiently he instructed us. So we had a very close relationship with him..
He left a trading company and worked as exporter alone and sold our products. There were Italian toothpick makers among the customers, and they came to Japan for sightseeing and were informed that they would like to see us in Kyoto.
He and I met the customer. Since I was going to Europe every year, I proposed to visit them. When we met, they
agreed with each other, initially shipping the toothpick in a paper box of our company's "Kimono" brand, it gradually becomes larger, and the transaction becomes bigger as it sells in a container of 20 feet, increasing competitiveness. Because it shipped the toothpick in bulk, it began to pack in Italy. If we 20,000 picks in a box and pack it in 10 cartons carton, about 8400 toothpicks were packed in the container. We shipped this every month. Competition with strong brands such as "Samurai" "Sayonara" "Geisha" continued.
Why is used Japan name? Originally in Italy, the toothpick was made of poplar. Because poplar is made of soft material, make round blades, cut logs of about 10 centimeters in diameter to the length of a toothpick, and strongly hit the knife, the round shaft comes out. Because it is such a manufacturing method, the roundness is not constant and it looks bad. Moreover, the material is soft. It is not comparable to those made with white birch wood made in Japan. In around 1935 the round picks was still a poor quality but to Italy the toothpicks were placed in the wheat chest straw small box and sold. Dry straw opened and stretched dry, flattened it, dyed it in various colors, made a small colorful small box and exported it. In the case of Italy it was originally a product of natural products the same as dry mushrooms, mint dishes, mosquito coils, etc. It was because we kept giving the impression that Japanese products are good products strongly to the citizens who like toothpicks for a long time. Because there is such a historical process, it is not possible to capture the triangular pick as a dental pick, so now the round toilet is still main stream, and it closely resembles the situation in Japan. These four brands are still alive. It is spreading to other Italian Colonial cities. In case I visited many times and I was able to build a long business relationship
