Sumita Optical Glass

Lihachi Sumita, the founder, was born in 1883 in Shiga prefecture, Japan. When he was a third-grade student at elementary school, he quarreled with his teacher, so he left school. During the Russo-Japanese War, he won a decoration for a remarkable feat that he broke though the enemy's line alone apart from their battle positions in a breakthrough mission with the army. He often said "Don't do the same as others". Lihachi Sumita, the founder of SUMITA, and his wife, Shin