In 1959, Yaesu Musen Company was established by its
current president, Sako Hasegawa, in Tokyo to produce the first single
sideband communications equipment in Japan. Beginning with the model
FT-20 SSB transmitter, the innovative features and quality construction
of Yaesu products were recognized overseas, and Yaesu Musen began
exporting in 1961. In 1966 Yaesu developed the first Japanese
transceiver using transistors, the FT-100, and sales boomed the
following year. Virtually all profits were reinvested to expand the
Company, and the product line grew to include an all solid-state VHF FM
transceiver in 1970, and the FT-101 all-mode single-unit HF station the
following year. This transceiver was widely recognized as the first of
its kind in the world, and the company doubled in size over the next
three years, and then doubled again in the following three years while
introducing digital displays and all solid-state HF mobile and base
transceivers.
The ruggedness, utility and economy of Yaesu
products proved especially attractive in commercial applications, and
in 1976 Yaesu Musen Company established a separate design branch
dedicated exclusively to commercial and professional two-way
communications products which grew to nearly 45 different models and
supporting products in the following five years, and is now Yaesu's
largest selling product category.
Yaesu Musen Company Ltd. presently consists of nearly
seven hundred employees, including seventy design engineers, serving a
network of over 150 independent distributors in over 60 countries dealing exclusively in
two way radio communications equipment.
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