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[[Asahi]] was the original name of the company that would become [[Pentax]], after the name of one its own models.
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The word '''Asahi''' means "morning sun" in Japanese and it is found in various company names:
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* Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō that became [[Pentax]] in 2002
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* [[Asahi Bussan]], a camera distributor and manufacturer in the mid-1930s
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* [[Asahi Bussan|Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō]], new name of Asahi Bussan's manufacturing facilities after it was absorbed by [[Ricoh|Riken]]
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* Asahi Musen and Asahi Seimitsu, successors of Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō, subsidiaries of [[Ricoh|Riken]]
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* [[Asahi Shashin Kōgyō]], a film maker in the 1930s
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* [[Asahi Shōten]], a distributor in the late 1940s
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* Asahi Shinbunsha, publisher of
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** ''[[Asahi Camera]]''
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** ''[[Asahi Graph]]''

Latest revision as of 23:20, 23 January 2009

Disambiguation Page

The word Asahi means "morning sun" in Japanese and it is found in various company names: