What country is the brand of Canon

Canon is a Japanese brand. Japan's first high-end 35mm camera is produced by Canon, Canon was born in 1937, which was originally a Seiki Optical Research Institute, and later reorganized due to unfavorable management, became Seiki Optical Industry Co. Later, the company introduced the "Hansa Canon" to the European market, competing with Leica and Contax in the market.

Canon is one of the world's leading integrated groups of imaging and information products in Japan, and its product lines*** are organized into three main areas: personal products, office equipment and industrial equipment.

Canon's main products include cameras and lenses, digital cameras, printers, copiers, fax machines, scanners, broadcasting equipment, medical devices and semiconductor production equipment. Canon is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has four regional sales headquarters in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Japan.

Canon has 200 subsidiaries around the world and employs more than 100,000 people.

On March 9, 2016, Japan's Toshiba Corporation held a board of directors and ultimately decided to sell its Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation to Canon Corporation, which made a takeover offer of 700 billion yen (about 40.5 billion yuan).