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13-640: The Nakajima Aircraft company was Japan's first aircraft manufacturer, and was founded in 1918 by Chikuhei Nakajima , a naval engineer, and Seibei Kawanishi , a textile manufacturer, as Nihon Hikoki (Nippon Aircraft) . In 1919, the two founders split and Nakajima bought out Nihon Aircraft's factory with tacit help from the Imperial Japanese Army . The company was renamed Nakajima Aircraft Company in 1919. The company's manufacturing facilities were: After Japan's defeat in World War II ,

26-625: A major supplier of airplanes in the Empire of Japan . He also served as a cabinet minister. Nakajima was born in Nitta District, Gunma , (currently part of Ōta city ), where his father was a farmer. Nakajima attended the Imperial Japanese Naval Engineering School, graduating from the 15th class in 1907 and was promoted to Ensign in 1908. On October 27, 1911, he piloted Japan’s first airship . He

39-805: A nation's resistance/morale, this is also known as terror bombing . On his return to Japan, he designed an improved version of the Farman float plane for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Nakajima was dispatched as a military attaché to Europe in 1916, to observe first-hand the use of aircraft in combat. On his return to Japan in 1917, he resigned from the military as a Lieutenant, and opened a company to produce aircraft in Japan in his hometown of Ōta in Gunma Prefecture . Nakajima received financial support from fellow engineer Seibei Kawanishi, and

52-609: A number of spin-off companies set up by its former managers, engineers, and workers. As a result, leading aeronautical engineers from the company, such as Ryoichi Nakagawa , helped transform Japan's automobile industry. The company was reborn in 1953 as Fuji Heavy Industries , maker of Fuji Rabbit scooters and Subaru automobiles, and as Fuji Precision Industries (later renamed Prince Motor Company , which merged with Nissan in August 1966), manufacturer of Prince Skyline and Prince Gloria automobiles. Fuji began aircraft production in

65-722: A week until it was abolished) and Minister of Commerce and Industry (which he held for just over a month). Afterwards, he was arrested along with all other members of the former Japanese government by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers and was held in Sugamo Prison for trial for war crimes . Nakajima was released on parole before his trial came to court in 1947. In 1949, while at his home in Mitaka, Tokyo , he died of an intracranial hemorrhage . His grave

78-734: Is at the Tama Cemetery in Fuchū, Tokyo . 1930 Japanese general election Hamaguchi Osachi Rikken Minseitō Hamaguchi Osachi Rikken Minseitō Naruhito [REDACTED] Fumihito [REDACTED] Shigeru Ishiba ( LDP ) Second Ishiba Cabinet ( LDP – Komeito coalition ) [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Fukushiro Nukaga Kōichirō Genba [REDACTED] Masakazu Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Nagahama Saburo Tokura Kazuo Ueda General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1930. The Constitutional Democratic Party , which

91-671: The Diet of Japan with the support of the Rikken Seiyūkai political party. He turned control of Nakajima Aircraft over to his brother in 1931 in order to devote his efforts to politics full-time, and was subsequently re-elected four times from the Gunma No. 1 Electoral District. From June 1937 through January 1939, Nakajima served as Railway Minister under the Konoe administration . Nakajima also headed an influential political faction within

104-824: The Rikken Seiyūkai . He was awarded with the Order of the Sacred Treasure , 2nd class. Nakajima was highly critical of the decision by Japan to declare war on the United States, and warned of the dangers posed by America’s industrial strength and production capabilities and growing air power. He was outraged by the decision of the Japanese military to abandon his project for a long-range bomber capable of striking at targets in North America. Although Nakajima

117-546: The company was called Nihon Hikoki Seisakusho KK (Japanese Aeroplane Manufacturing Work Co. Ltd). This company became the Nakajima Aircraft Company after the partners split in 1919, and the same year, the new company received its first order for 20 aircraft from the Japanese military. Nakajima first ran for public office during the 1930 General Election , when he was elected to the Lower House of

130-403: The company was forced to close, as the production and research of aircraft was prohibited by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers . This had a severe impact on Nakajima as one of the two largest aircraft manufacturers in Japan; the second was Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). Unlike MHI, Nakajima did not diversify into shipbuilding and general machinery, and so was forced to dissolve into

143-513: The mid-1950s and produced military training aircraft and helicopters for the Japan Self-Defense Forces . In 2017, it rebranded as Subaru Corporation . Chikuhei Nakajima Chikuhei Nakajima ( 中島 知久平 , Nakajima Chikuhei , January 1, 1884 – October 29, 1949) , was a Japanese businessman, naval engineer , naval officer , and politician who was most notable for having founded Nakajima Aircraft Company in 1917,

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156-617: Was also commissioned as a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1911. After graduating from the Naval Staff College in 1912, he was sent for further studies to the United States , where he became the 3rd Japanese to receive a pilot’s license upon graduation from a flight school established by Glenn Curtiss . In 1915, he drafted the first paper advocating for the bombing of civilians to crush

169-469: Was forced to join the Taisei Yokusankai , he was vocally critical of the new political organization. While recognizing the advantages of a one-party system , he accused it of being unconstitutional and of attempting to create a new shogunate . After the surrender of Japan , Prime Minister Higashikuni asked Nakajima to accept the cabinet posts of Minister of Munitions (which he held for

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