To add to the confusion, both the pen maker and the conglomerate have identical English names, Japanese kanjis, and even share the same three-red-diamonds logo.
To add to the confusion, both the pen maker and the conglomerate have identical English names, Japanese kanjis, and even share the same three-red-diamonds logo.
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1. MUFG Americas origin: https://mufgamericas.com/who-we-are/our-history
2. MUFG Bank origin: https://www.bk.mufg.jp/global/aboutus/origins/index.html
3. UnionBank reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUFG_Union_Bank
4. MUFG (M-UFJ-FG) reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_UFJ_Financial_Group
EDIT: turns out both companies came to this logo independently. The pen company got to it first, and the Mitsubishi Group and the pen company decided to allow mutual usage due to non-competing business areas.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3...
^ here’s some more info for Japanese speakers. Basically both companies derived their logo from various family crests and it’s a pretty common shape so it ended up like this