is a Japanese music box and electrical component manufacturing company and a member of the
Nidec Group. The company was founded as Sankyo Seiki Manufacturing in 1946; Nidec Corporation became the majority shareholder of the company in 2003. In fiscal 2013, it had a revenue of more than 9.9 billion yen (US$800 million) from the manufacture of various electronic components.
Nidec Sankyo has had a
speed skating
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skat ...
club since 1957 and two of its members,
Keiichiro Nagashima
is a Japanese long track speed skater specialising in the sprint distances 500 and 1000 metres. Nagashima has won two World Cup races and has three Japanese domestic titles. He is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.
Career
Nagas ...
and
Joji Kato, won medals at the
2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Athlete Profiles - Nidec Sankyo Speed Skating Team
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References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.nidec-sankyo.co.jp/english/index.html
Electronics companies of Japan
Companies established in 1946