Nikon Logo — Nikon Corporation (or Nikon, Nikon Corp.) is a joint Japanese founded in 1917, currently one of the leaders in the field of photography and optics. Produces cameras, binoculars, microscopes, and measuring instruments.
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The company was founded in 1917 under the name Nippon Kogaku Kogyo (日本光学工业株式会社), resulting from the merger of two leading companies in the field of optics. The company specialized in the construction of lenses and precision instruments for photo cameras, binoculars, microscopes and measuring instruments. During World War II became a supplier Nikon binoculars, periscopes and other optical instruments for the Japanese army, and grew to industrial establishments with 19 employees and 23000. After the end of the war, he returned to civilian production, reducing to a single factory and 1400 employees. In 1946 was named Nikon, union Nippon Kogaku (“Japan Optical”) with the word Ikon, a reference to the Zeiss. More