Japanese touch panel developers awarded French medal of honor

OSAKA, Japan - Keizo Wada (R) and Tadashi Shimizu (L), who jointly founded the Osaka-based touch panel maker Digital Electronics Corp., pose with Henri Lachmann, chairman of the supervisory board of Schneider Electric, in Osaka on Dec. 1, 2011. The French government on the same day bestowed the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor medals to Wada and Shimizu, who developed the industrial touch panel in 1988. Digital Electronics is an arm of France's Schneider Electric.

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