TIL: Mitsubishi is Actually Several Distinct Companies from Japan
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Apparently, there is a company named Mitsubishi with the exact three-diamond logo as the car company.
Actually, there are a lot of companies named Mitsubishi in Japan. The one I’m talking about actually trades internationally as ‘Uni’ . You know, the absolutely awesome Uni-ball pens? Yeah, they’ve made pencils for hundreds of years.
As a matter of fact, they had quite a rivalry ( archive ) in Japan with Tombow , making amazing stationary and writing tools of all shapes and sizes.
In researching all of this, I fell down a wikihole and learned that Mitsubishi, as of 2024, owns Lamy . Lamy is one of my favorite pen companies. I own several of their excellent fountain pens. I also learned that they have a new limited edition set of fountain pens for Harry Potter fans (🤤) and they make iPad compatible pens that look like Lamy Safari’s !