02 / Company & ownership
Behind the brand.
GLOBAL arrived in 1985 with Komin Yamada’s seamless stainless-steel form: a blade, hollow handle and dotted grip that read as one object. Yoshikin produces the knives in Tsubame.
Sources · previous brand research
- 1954
The Tsubame manufacturer builds its expertise in stainless-steel housewares.
- 1985
Komin Yamada introduces the seamless knife and dotted hollow handle.
- Today
GLOBAL knives continue to be produced in Niigata, Japan.



