Yashica Co. Ltd., from 1949 to 2015

Beginning as a small company of 8 people making electric clock parts, Yashima Seiki Co., LTD would later transform itself into an international corporation and a pioneer of electronic innovations that would help to shape the photographic equipment industry.

Expanding on their start as a precision parts manufacturer, Yashima Seiki changed their direction when they begin to engineer and build Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) cameras under contract for Endō Photographic Supplies, and would later create their own camera line to be marketed and sold under the newly renamed company's Yashica brand.

This site attempts to highlight many of the products and achievements reached by the company during their 66 year history, as it navigated through it's partnerships, financial and organizational fluctuations, and corporate ownership changes.