Iwatsu Electric, Co., Ltd. (岩崎通信機株式会社, Iwasaki Tsūshinki Kabushiki-gaisha) TYO: 6704 is a Japanese electronics manufacturer founded 14 August 1938.

The company has enjoyed growth along the public NTT, expanding its products to radio communication equipment, oscilloscopes, and in the year 1961, their first reprographic system.

His ventures in Hokkaidō stretched from railroads to coal mines, until the year 1933 when he changed his course and came back to Tokyo again.

The telecommunications infrastructure was so poor that it had to rely on power lines and railway cables—upon which telephone signals were superimposed.

Iwasaki Kogyo set out to develop an anti-induction telephone to solve this problem, whilst running the cable manufacturing operations.

With the help of these two engineers, he set up a lab in his own house in Yoyogi to develop the two kinds of special-purpose telephones.

After six months, Tokoha and Hashimoto introduced Iwasaki to Kokichi Hayakawa, the television research chief at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Waseda University.

Iwasaki knew that a privately owned business was not enough to meet such high demands and decided to incorporate a company.

Iwatsu was one of the three companies (including Hitachi and NEC) ordered by the army to develop a radar warning system.

Iwatsu began building schools on the corporate campus, providing young factory workers with education.

Starting the development of new products (of which Iwatsu had no experience) from scratch was hard enough; rampant inflation and constant lack of materials did not help, either.

When Iwatsu finally got the first approval for the common-battery telephone among other three products from the Ministry of Communications and made delivery in 1947, the employees' excitement reached its peak.

Iwatsu was deep in debt, frequent demonstrations were held by a newly formed labor union, and many jobs had to be cut.

After World War II, rebuilding the devastated communications infrastructure was ordered by the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces (GHQ) and became one of the country's top priorities.

Iwatsu's production facilities made significant advancements with the introduction of quality control and belt conveyors.

The Far East Air Material Command (FEAMCOM) in Tachikawa, Tokyo was in need of more oscilloscopes (which were scarce and not so advanced at the time) for testing their radar systems.

Iwatsu's Synchroscope continued to evolve in response to new demands, such as larger CRTs and higher frequency ranges.

It became extremely hard for him to look after two companies at the same time because Fuji Heavy Industries started their production of motor vehicles in full swing, so he remained as the president of Fuji Heavy Industries and became the chairman of the board of Iwatsu, in effect, stepping down from his active role at Iwatsu.

Ohashi's inauguration marked the end of Iwatsu's long postwar reconstruction period and the beginning of a new era.

After years of research in Europe and the U.S., Iwatsu took notice of RCA's electrostatic printer and copier technology (electrofax).

Iwatsu's first dry-type electronic reprographic machine ELEFAX PC 201 was introduced at Tokyo Business Show in 1960.

With the help of Fujikasui Engineering, the plant was designed with a proactive approach to prevent pollution, namely, an innovative wastewater treatment system.

Iwatsu started branching out into overseas markets, doing business with Southeast Asian countries, Kenya, Dominican Republic, and Ireland.

Iwatsu took part in trade shows in the United States, South Korea, Switzerland, Germany, and so on.

Iwatsu tied up with a Taiwanese company to export telephone manufacturing technologies and start production in Taiwan.

Although export to the U.S. marked a record high in 1973 (the year the energy crisis hit), accurate information from the U.S. distributors was not readily available, which was a problem for planning new products in Japan.

The company's primary focus is on the following three business domains: Some of the major Iwatsu subsidiaries and affiliates are: