Miyazaki Airplane
Company typePrivate
IndustryAircraft Parts Manufacturing
Headquarters
Kanuma
,
Japan
Key people
Katsuji Miyazaki (Director)

Miyazaki Airplane was an aircraft parts manufacturing company based in Japan's Tochigi Prefecture during World War II.[1] The company owned a factory located in Kanuma,[2] that manufactured parts, including rudders, for the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. During the war, the firm relocated to Utsunomiya.[3]

Ownership and leadership

The company was run by Katsuji Miyazaki (c. 1915 – 18 March 1993), the father of the Studio Ghibli animation studio co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.[4][5] During World War II production runs the company was owned by Katsuji's brother.

References

  1. ^ McCarthy, Helen (September 1, 1999), Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation, USA: Stone Bridge Press, p. 26, ISBN 1-880656-41-8.
  2. ^ Asian cinema, vol. 17, Asian Cinema Studies Society, 2006, p. 117.
  3. ^ Osmond, Andrew 2008. Spirited Away, p. 27.
  4. ^ Thomson, Clifford (2002), "Hayao Miyazaki", Current Biography Yearbook 2001.
  5. ^ "Miyazaki Hayao", Encyclopedia Britannica.


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