This year marks contact lens manufacturer Menicon's 60th year in business and one of the most significant in its history, as Alison Ewbank reports
By the time he celebrated his 21st birthday, Tanaka had developed Japan's first corneal contact lens, tested on his own eyes, and, along with his brother Toyoyasu and ophthalmologist Dr Yutaka Mitzutani, founded the Nippon Contact Lens Research Centre. This was the forerunner of what was eventually to become Japan's largest contact lens company, Menicon.
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