Canon develops its first five-year plan in preparation for full-fledged entry into the business machine market.
Canon Latin America, the company's sole distributor for Latin America, is established in Panama.
1962
1963
Canon SA Geneva is established. By abolishing the sole-distributor system, Canon moves to a new sales system, with outlets under the direct control of the headquarters in Tokyo.
1963
Canon starts work on optical fiber development.
An X-ray mirror camera is introduced.
1964
Tamagawa factory (today, the Tamagawa Office) opens, producing 8 mm movie cameras and lenses.
1964
The Canola 130, the world's first 10-key electronic calculator, is introduced.
Canola 130
1965
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is established.
1965
Canon enters the copying machine field with the introduction of the Canofax 1000.
1967
The 30th anniversary slogan -"Cameras in the Right Hand, Business Machines in the Left"- is announced.
The ratio of exports to net sales surpasses 50%.
Canon Latin America, Inc., is established.
1967
1968
Canon Business Machines Sales, Inc. (today, Canon Marketing Japan) is established in Japan.
Canon Amsterdam N.V. (today, Canon Europa N.V.) is established.
1968
The Canon NP System, the original electro-photography technology, is introduced and Canon enters the plain-paper copier (PPC) market.
Canon Electronics is successful in the mass production of four-track, four-channel stereo recording heads.
1969
The company's name is changed to Canon Inc.
Canon Camera Sales Co., Inc., is founded for Japanese marketing.
The Canon Research Center is established in Meguro, Tokyo.
Fukushima Canon Inc. is established as a camera manufacturing plant.
1969
The world's first lens employing fluorite is introduced.
1970
Canon Inc., Taiwan, Canon’s first manufacturing facility outside of Japan, is established.
Canon enters the market for personal calculators.
1970
The NP-1100, Japan's first PPC, is introduced.
NP-1100
The PPC-1, Japan's first mask aligner, is introduced.
PPC-1
1971
Canon Business Machines Sales, Inc., and Canon Camera Sales Co., Ltd., merge to form Canon Sales Co., Inc.
1971
The Canon F-1, a top-end SLR camera, and FD lenses are introduced.
The BP-1000 billing machine is introduced. Canon enters the field of office computers.
1972
Canon Giessen GmbH, Canon’s first European manufacturing site, is established in Germany.
1972
The NP-70, the world's first PPC with the liquid-dry system, is introduced.
1973
Canon Deutschland GmbH is established.
1973
Japan's first full-color PPC is introduced.
A macro zoom lens for cinematography wins an Academy Award in the science and technology category from the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
1974
Takeo Maeda is appointed president of Canon Inc.
Takeo Maeda
Canon Business Machines, Inc., is established in California, U.S.A.
Optron, Inc. (today, Canon Optron, Inc.) is established.
1974
The Canonac 100 and 500 office computers are introduced.
The Communicator, a portable "tape-writer" for the speech impaired, is announced.
Canon initiates sales of the Optacon, an electronic reader for the blind.
