Takaya Corporation is an electronics equipment manufacturer in Okayama prefecture, Japan. The company was originally established as a textile company in 1918, and began assembling transistor radios in 1966.[1] In 1977, Takaya and Sharp Corporation jointly established Sharp Takaya Electronics Co., Ltd.
Some products have been sold directly to original equipment manufacturers under the Takaya brand. One of the many testers still in daily use is the APT-8300 fixtureless tester, a three-axis flying probe tester.