the First Japanese automobile company. The western models

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Masudziro Hasimoto, the young mechanical engineer who has spent to the USA nine years, studying there internal combustion engines, has returned to Japan in 1911 and Kvajsin sa ', engaged in manufacture of the car with the 12-strong petrol engine has based the company '. This car has received the name ' DATES ' on the initials of three partners: Dan, Aojamy and Takeuti. (After decades Hasimoto begins to let out model ' Datson ', that is ' the Son DATE '. But as the termination ' a dream ' in the Japanese language to similarly concept ' bankruptcy ', Hasimoto named the model ' Datsun '.)

Though ' DATES ' has met a favorable reception in the market, the firm ' Kvajsin sa ' faced great difficulties. After a number of reorganisation and merges it in 1926 has turned in ' DATES otomobajl menjufekchuring kompani ' which at that time was one of the largest automobile firms of Japan though on the American scales it looked almost tiny.

In the meantime on the automobile market left a little known, but not connected with dzajbatsu the companies which basically copied the western models. ' Tokyo of hydroelectric power station end the electrician ', producing household appliances, during the First World War began to let out in small amounts trucks. The company ' Isikavadzima shipbilding ' during the same time has got Italian ' FIAT ' and tried to copy it for sale in the Japanese market.