Kids were always gathering around to watch him wherever he would park himself after school with his large spiral pad and his mechanicalpencil and begin to sketch the people nearby.
The century-old company, whose founder invented the first mechanicalpencil and designed one of the first radio sets in Japan, has in recent years fallen behind nimbler rivals, such as South Korea's Samsung.
Using only pencil and paper, an artist begins by transforming the city into a clockwork model, with mechanical diagrams detailing how the city will build itself in the title sequence.