Vision/Mission
" Achieving the customers' needs " is our mission and the driving force for moving us towards the future.
- Frontier Spirit, Speed & Creativity are Our Identities -
Since our company was established in January 1987, we have been intending to be a creative enterprise that can speedily correspond to the epoch trend with the pioneering spirit that never yields to any difficulties.
Our current scope of business includes a series of disaster prevention equipment such as advanced Earthquake early warning systems (EEW), Lithium power storage devices, Earthquake vibration sensing breakers, and now Multi-function drone for disaster relief, designed circuit boards to game maker companies, all kinds of computer/mobile devices, even portable Sterilization deodorant machines and hobby-related products ... etc.
"Development department" utilizes the technology of electrical circuit design from upstream to downstream.
"Trading Department" makes our territory not only limited to domestic but also expand to Southeast Asia and Western countries worldwide.
"Retail department" functions as an antenna which collects the voices from the valuable consumers. All these three divisions together create a solid foundation for our business.
We will continue our company spirit of the time when it was established and always self-reproof about the social responsibility to protect human life, lifestyle, property, the infrastructure of the country and contribute to society at the same time!
Our all employees, the company and the interested parties will contain the same goal to continue challenging to the future for social prosperity!
Business Description
Advanced earthquake early warning receiving terminal, also includes the emergency power supply equipments, disaster prevention-related equipments, as well as the PC peripheral manufacturing and sales, the development of mobile-related peripheral equipments, manufacturing, sales, import and export trading
Location:
CHINA, VIETNAM, SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN
Background
year month day | History |
January 1987 | Century Corporation was establisded in Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo for the purpose of importing, exporting and selling electric ,electronic devices and the parts. |
June, 1988 | Acquired export agency right from Sharp Corporation for full-scale export of semiconductor parts to Southeast Asia, the United States, and Europe. |
November 1991 | In anticipation of the expansion of the personal computer market, the head office was relocated to the city of sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, near Akihabara, which is the leading edge area of the personal computers. |
1991 same month | Started manufacturing and selling additional memory modules for PCs under the original brand. |
April 1992 | With the expansion of business, the warehouse was newly established in Taito-ku, Tokyo and the head office was relocatied to 3-chome Ueno. |
April 1994 | Logistics Center was established in Kashiwa City, Chiba for business expansion. |
July 1995 | Released the pin number converter "SIMM converter" and the monitor switching machine "MES-600DX" for DOS / V-Macintosh, then entered into production and sales of peripheral devices for personal computers. |
October 1995 | Acquired the authorized distributor right from Apple Computer, Inc., USA. |
December 1995 | Started to supply custom-designed OEM PCs for the arcade game industry, such as photo booth. |
October 1997 | Merged with Cyber Co., Ltd. to enter the retail business sector in advance. At the same time, we acquired the retail shops “Akibakan Main Shop”, “Akihakan Annex”, “Akibakan New Shop”, “Mac Academy” and “Akibatei”. |
February 1998 | The headquarters was relocatied to 2-chome Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo to expand the head office function |
March 1998 | In order to strengthen the retail business in Hokkaido and Tohoku regions, we had an agreement with Dome Co., Ltd. to acquire all sales and opened a Sapporo sales office. Accompanying this, we acquired the retail store “DO-ME”. |
March 1999 | In order to strengthen the sales and management systems of the retail department, "Mac Academy" was integrated into the "Akibakan new shop", and entered the Internet business through the web sale system of this shop |
January 2000 | A third-party allocation of new shares is processed |
October 2000 | In order to strengthen the function of logistics, "Logistics Division" is started, also moved to the Large logistics center in Kashiwa City, Chiba. |
The same month of 2000 | Implement Stock split (free delivery) |
February 2001 | Implement Stock split (free delivery) |
August 2001 | Develop a mobile phone charger "strongest power theory Hercules" (electronic goods) as a convenience store for the items, sales start. |
June 2002 | In response to the changes of the market (Akihabara area), the "TOPGUN" was started (retail sales of aircraft-related goods) |
January 2003 | In response to the changes of the market (Akihabara area), the "BACK DROP" of Akibakan was started (retail sales of WWE · TNA Wrestling-related goods) |
September 2003 | "China Office" was established for strengthening production control and extension of the market. |
November 2003 | Used PC business was started in "Akibakan" located in Akihabara. |
August 2004 | "Century Direct" was started to strengthen WEB business. |
September 2004 | "Taiwan office" was established for strengthening production control and expansion of the market. |
March 2005 | "Kashiwa logistics Center" was relocated to Toyofuta, Kashiwa, Chiba for business expansion. |
August 2005 | Start production of the sales items for convenience store in Vietnam |
November 2005 | Join as a member of the mobile phone emergency charger Manufacturers Association (MEIA). |
April 2008 | Join as a member of Japan Fire Alarms Manufacturer's accociation |
October 2008 | Acquisition of treasury stock |
October 2008 | The logistics warehouse of the sales department for Sapporo office "DO-ME" was relocated to Nishi-ku, Sapporo for business expansion |
December 2008 | Start production and promotion about residential disaster prevention alarms. |
January 2010 | DO-MU shop and warehouse Relocation |
April 2010 | Akibakan shop Relocation |
August 2010 | Japan Meteorological Agency forecast work permission obtained(Earthquake motion forecast) "Permit No. 164" |
August 2010 | Join as a member of the earthquake early warning users council |
October 2010 | Acquisition of treasury stock |
February 2011 | China (Shenzhen) Office Relocation |
June 2013 | Okinawa office established |
Products/Services
Earthquake Preparedness Supplies
Emergency power supply
RAZOKU Series
Multiple Type
Copy / clone featured
DUPLICATOR
ACCESORIES
New Products
Thunderbolt3 Portable NVMe SSD 2TB (CPNVTB3-2000)
PHISON Inc. E12 M2 NVMe SSD (2TB) Thunderbolt3 with built-in Portable NVMe SSD Announcing a new! (July 18, 2019)
Supported OS:
MacOS10.13 later Win10 Win8.1 Win7
Connection method:
Thunderbolt3 Portable NVMe SSD 1TB (CPNVTB3-1000)
PHISON Inc. E12 M2 NVMe SSD (1TB) Thunderbolt3 with built-in Portable NVMe SSD Announcing a new! (July 18, 2019)
Supported OS:
MacOS10.13 later Win10 Win8.1 Win7
Connection method:
Thunderbolt3 Portable NVMe SSD 512GB (CPNVTB3-512)
PHISON Inc. E12 M2 NVMe SSD (512GB) Thunderbolt3 with built-in Portable NVMe SSD Announcing a new! (July 18, 2019)
Supported OS:
MacOS10.13 later Win10 Win8.1 Win7
Connection method:
MicroUSB cable 1m 2.1A (DS-SCW-170)
Charging and data transfer is possible MicroUSB cable (July 17, 2019)
Type-C tough cable 1m (CTC-JD30)
Strong in bending break-! Type-C Tough cable! (July 17, 2019)
Lightning tough cable 2m (T2L-JD24)
Strong Lightning Tough cable 2m to bending disconnection, (July 17, 2019)
MicroUSB tough cable 2m & Type-C adapter (T2CM-JD24)
Strong in bending break-! Tough cable can also be used to be Type-C MicroUSB! (July 17, 2019)
Lightning tough cable 1m (CTL-JD24)
Strong Lightning Tough cable 1m to bending disconnection, (July 17, 2019)
Markets
CHINA, JAPAN, South KOREA, TAIWAN, VIETNAM
Industry
Advanced use earthquake early warning receiving terminal, and including the emergency power supply equipment disaster prevention-related equipment, as well as the computer, the development of mobile-related peripheral equipment, production, sales and import and export
Location
Head Office
2-28-5 Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0016 Japan
PC Equipment Sales Dept. :
TEL : 81-3-5818-7045 FAX : 81-3-5818-7385
Trading and Overseas Marketing Dept. :
TEL : 81-3-5818-7051 FAX : 81-3-5818-3560
Planning & Developing Division :
TEL : 81-3-5818-7051 FAX : 81-3-5818-3560
Consumer Electronics Product Division :
TEL : 81-3-5818-7065 FAX : 81-3-5818-3565
Administration Division :
TEL : 81-3-5818-7709 FAX : 81-3-5818-7233
Quality Control Division :
TEL : 81-3-5818-7049 FAX : 81-3-5818-3565
EEW(Earthquake Early Warning) Control Center :
TEL : 81-570-007-817 FAX : 81-3-5818-3565
Planning & Developing Division office
Yonejyu Nagano Building 1F, 2-29-3 Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0016 Japan
TEL : 81-3-5816-4681 FAX : 81-3-5816-4686
Logistics Center
249-329 Toyofuta Kashiwa-shi Chiba 277-0872 Japan
: TEL: 81-4-7142-7275 the FAX: 81-4-7142-7285
Okinawa Office
BELL THE OKINAWA Building 602 1-19-1 Matsuo, Naha-shi, Okinawa 900-0014 Japan
: TEL: 81-98-951-3972 the FAX: 81-98-951-3973
Overseas office
Taipei (Taiwan) Office
3D29, No.5, Sec.5, Sinyi Rd., Sinyi Dist., Taipei City 11011, Taiwan (Taipei World Trade Center)
TEL : 886-2-8780-5590 FAX : 886-2-8780-5570
Shenzhen (China) office
2-907 Yaran'ge, Yaranju, Qianjin Road, Xin'an Street, Baoan-area, Shenzhen City, GuangDong, China, 518102
TEL : 86-755-2785-2591 FAX : 86-755-2785-2570
Seoul (Korea) Office
Room421 Seoul Technopark, 232 Gongreung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 139-743, Korea
Akibakan
Super Building 5F / 6F, 1-11-5 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021 Japan
Akibakan Sales Dept. (5F/6F) :
TEL : 81-3-3255-8700 FAX : 81-3-3255-8282
TOPGUN (5F) :
TEL : 81-3-5289-9611 FAX : 81-3-3255-8282
BACKDROP (5F) :
TEL : 81-3-3255-8701 FAX : 81-3-3255-8282
TOP-GUN / BonBelta Narita Store
BonBelta Narita 5F, 2-1-10 Akasaka, Narita-shi, Chiba 286-8521 Japan
TEL : 81-476-37-6900 FAX : 81-476-85-6960
DO-MU
1-1-4, Kitarokujohigashi, Higashi-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 060-0906 Japan
DO-MU Sales Dept. :
TEL : 81-11-271-2721 FAX : 81-11-271-2722
Company Goals & Objectives
Century logo was created by one of our company founders, Mr. Hirohisa Kagawa (deceased) who is also the first president of Century.
The logo shows the idea of three generations.
We have crossed the past, present and future, three generations.
Be thankful, learn, and get lessons from the past.
Be diligent, honest, and work hard for the present.
Do our best to achieve the goals toward the bright future.
Every employee of our company will hold in mind about the three-generations concept of our logo.
Let us be a company which could make contribution to the society.
As human beings, let us become useful persons and live our life now with passion.
Management
President and CEO Kazunari Shozen