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Industry History | Nissan — The Plant at 2 Takara-cho, Yokohama
· 1933-12
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Industry History | Nissan — The Plant at 2 Takara-cho, Yokohama
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12/26/1933
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People treat Nissan as a global carmaker that was always headquartered in a glass tower by Yokohama Station.
The registered office is still a factory lot.
On 26 December 1933, Yoshisuke Aikawa's two companies, Nihon Sangyo and Tobata Imono, formed Jidosha Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha in Yokohama. Planned capital was 10 million yen in 1933 currency: six million from Nihon Sangyo and four million from Tobata Casting.
Aikawa already ran Nihon Sangyo, the holding company whose contracted name supplied the letters Ni-San. On 1 June 1934 the new firm became a wholly owned subsidiary and took the name Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
The Yokohama Plant at 2 Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, opened as Japan's first integrated automobile factory. Parts, machining and final assembly sat on one reclaimed waterfront site.
In 1935 a Datsun Model 14 left Assembly No. 1.
Output had been 202 vehicles in 1933, when Datsun production was still in Osaka. It rose to 940 in 1934 after the move to Yokohama.
The legal head office remains 2 Takara-cho. The operating headquarters later moved to 1-1 Takashima, Nishi-ku, across the city.
The plant itself shifted from whole cars to engines, motors and suspension units after Zama opened in 1965.
The public door on the founding lot is the Nissan Engine Museum and Guest Hall. The pin is that hall, on the same Takara-cho ground the 1934 plant occupied.
What survives is the industrial bet: a holding-company president bought waterfront land, put the whole car on one line, and left the registered address on the factory rather than on a bank street.
Photo: Ypy31, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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