Osamu Yamashita, founder of Olympus, 1919.

In most company's history there are visionaries, personalities or pure talent that change for ever the fortunes of that company. For our subject, Olympus Imaging, there have been three.

The company founder, an engineer by profession, Osamu Yamashita.

His first design engineer, Eichii Sakurai.

His protegy, yet another engineer, Yoshihisa Maitani.

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