FUJIGEN (フジゲン) is a Japanese musical instrument manufacturing company based in Matsumoto, Nagano. The company was formerly known as Fuji Gengakki Seizō (富士弦楽器製造), and is named after Japan's iconic Mount Fuji. FUJIGEN does OEM guitar manufacturing for well-known guitar brands, and they manufacture their own guitars under the brand FGN.
History
FUJIGEN started production in 1960 under the name Fuji Gengakki Seizō (富士弦楽器製造), making violins and classical guitars. In 1962, Fuji started production of electric guitars. In the 1970s, Fuji started making OEM guitars for companies such as Hoshino Gakki (Ibanez), 1970's UK importers, Arbiter, Charles Summerfield Ltd (Ibanez, CSL, Cimar & Sumbro) and J.T Coppock (Antoria) Kanda Shokai (Greco guitars) and Yamaha. In 1977–78, Fuji entered a joint venture with Roland to produce guitar synthesizers. In 1981, Fuji opted out of acoustic guitar production to mainly concentrate on solid body guitar production. Fuji obtained a CNC router in mid 1981 for making guitar parts and also began to manufacture their own pickups