It’s a spectacle to see, as a spectator, how spectacles are made. I had speculated that perhaps there were about 10 steps to making a pair of eyeglasses, but it turns out that there are about 200.

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The city's journey into the eyeglass industry began in 1905 when a local government official invited skilled artisans to the city to create new economic opportunities for farmers ...

Zoff opened pre-orders for a new collection of collaboration glasses with the Gintama anime series, releasing in Japan on October 2025.

In August 1979, an extremely nervous Masami Shirayama took the elevator to the penthouse suite on the top floor of the plush Hotel Okura Tokyo with sample eyeglass frames he had designed.