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Kawasaki Shōzō (川崎 正蔵, August 10, 1837 – December 2, 1912) was a Japanese industrialist and shipbuilder. [1] He was the founder of Kawasaki Heavy Industries . Biography
Kawasaki's origins go back to April 1878, when Shozo Kawasaki established Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard in Tokyo with the support of fellow Satsuma native and Vice Minister of Finance, Matsukata Masayoshi. [1] In 1886, Kawasaki established a second shipyard in Kobe, Hyōgo prefecture.
Kawasaki is Japan's largest manufacturer of rolling stock. It began operations in the industry in 1906. It manufactures express and commuter trains, subway cars, freight trains, locomotives, monorails and new transit systems. Kawasaki is also involved in the development and design of high-speed trains such as Japan's Shinkansen. Main Products
Kawasaki's first title was with Dave Simmonds in 1969 when they won the 125 cc World Championship. Kawasaki dominated the 250 cc and 350 cc grand prix classes from 1978 to 1982 winning four titles in each category. With the introduction of the four-stroke engines into MotoGP in 2002, Kawasaki decided to take part in the new MotoGP World ...
Kawasaki Aerospace Company; Kawasaki Caribbean Challenge; Kawasaki Jet Ski (video game) Kawasaki Motors; Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing; Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation; Kawasaki Shōzō; Japanese aircraft carrier Kumano Maru
Murata was a native of Tokyo and a graduated the Tokyo Higher Commerce School (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1900. [1] There he was friends with Shinji Tazaki, a commerce scholar who was awarded Senior Third Rank, the First Order of Merit. [2]
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia and Oceania .
Kawasaki disease (Kawasaki's), a vascular disease found primarily in young children; Kawasaki Racecourse, a horseracing dirt track, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan; Shaking rat Kawasaki, the Kawasaki lineage of laboratory rat animals; Kawasaki-type oiler (Japanese: 川崎型油槽船, romanized: Kawasaki-gata Yusōsen), an oil tanker and refueller ...