The Zebra is a herbivore that lives in the grasslands of Africa.
It has a very mild and gentle character and is a weak species that does not
even have horns or a sharp-toothed weapon to protect itself from its predators.
Therefore, zebras always live and travel in a herd, and they cooperate
without escaping from the herd.

Founded in 1897, a nib manufacturing company was renamed ZEBRA by founder
Tokumatsu Ishikawa in 1914. The reason for renaming the company ZEBRA was to
encourage all employees to unite like the Zebra and focus on the manufacturing of
writing instruments that are essential to the development of society and culture.

ZEBRA is written in Chinese characters as "斑馬." Among 斑馬, 斑 consists of the word “Sentence” 文 and the word “King” 王.
Our culture, started with letters, is eventually more developed by the letters.
There's no better word for a company in the stationery industry.
With this spirit, ZEBRA was reborn from a nib manufacturer to a writing instrument
company focusing on the ballpoint pen, marker, and mechanical pencil.

It succeeded in developing multi-colored pens from the mid-1960s, and in 1977,
it launched the world's first multi-function pen [SHARBO] which integrated
the mechanical pencil and the ballpoint pen. ZEBRA has acquired the trademark for
the SHARBO (Mechanical pencil) + Ballpoint pen) and has become a popular
representative product to this day.