The home of invention

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Maybe it's the bright and airy climate, and the outgoing, "yaramaika" pioneering spirit… The area around Lake Hamana is the birthplace of a number of companies that have later gone on to become world leaders in manufacturing, and that have produced many groundbreaking inventions. Let's take a look at how this age of craftsmanship evolved. 19261950 200019261936Michio Suzuki creates his first prototype car. 1952Suzuki Loom Manufacturing Co. (now Suzuki Motor Corporation) creates the "Power Free" motorized bicycle. 1955Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. Hamana plant (now Yamaha Motor Company, Co., Ltd.) develops their YA-1 "Red Dragonfly" motorcycle. 1955Suzuki Motor Company Limited (now Suzuki Motor Corporation) develops the lightweight "Suzuki Suzulight" car. 1937Suzuki Loom Manufacturing Co. (now Suzuki Motor Corp.) creates its first motorcycle engine prototype. 1946Honda Technical Research Institute develops motorized bicycles, nicknamed "batabata" because of their noise. 1963Honda Motor Co., Ltd. develops a lightweight truck.1966Enshu Keigokin Co., Ltd., created by Kenji Suzuki develops Japan's first aluminum alloy wheels. 1937Soichiro Honda starts production of piston rings.1899Koichi Kawai invents a piano action. 19001902Torakusu Yamaha develops Japan's first piano. 1 Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (now Yamaha Corporation) develops Japan's first grand piano. 1959Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (now Yamaha Corporation) develops Japan's first electronic organ. 1928Research by Katsujiro Horiuchi results in the development by Asahi Shashin Kogyo Co., Ltd. of "Kiku Film", Japan's first roll camera film. 1935Kenjiro Takayanagi develops the world's first fully electronic television. 1950Mutsuo Sugiura develops the world's first gastroscope. 1956Hamamatsu TV Co., Ltd. (now Hamamatsu Photonics), founded by Heihachiro Horiuchi develops a photomultiplier tube. Ryoichi Nishio develops a boiler and complete combustion device for greenhouse melon cultivation. Keijiro Muramatsu develops a method for eel farming using heated greenhouses. 1971Tenryu Saw Manufacturing Co., Ltd. develops Japan's first circular saw. 1922Asao Fukunaga completes the Tenryu 10, Japan’s first domestic passenger airplane. 1922cles rs Grand pianoMotorcyclesCars 02TaishoSyowaHeisei1989Photomultiplier tube used in the Super Kamiokande Nuetrino Detection Experiment

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