What vast Japanese corporation, with a red initial logo, was founded in Hamamatsu in 1909?
Bombing of Hamamatsu in World War II Royal Navy warships on July 29, 1945. Hamamatsu, in addition to being a major transportation hub on the Tōkaidō Main Line railway connecting Tokyo with Osaka, had several targets of military significance. It was the location of armaments factories, including Shōwa Yakuhin, Nakajima Aircraft Company, and Suzuki Motors. It was also the location of the Hamamatsu Flight School of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and a major military air field. Hamamatsu was also situated on the main flight route from Saipan to either Nagoya or Tokyo and was thus often assigned as a secondary target. In 1945, Hamamatsu city
Hamamatsu Photonics Hamamatsu Photonics The company was founded in 1953 by Heihachiro Horiuchi, a former student of Kenjiro Takayanagi, who is known as "the father of Japanese television". Hermann Simon, a leading German business author and thinker, mentioned Hamamatsu in his book titled "Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders" as an example of a "Hidden Champion". Hamamatsu CCD image sensors are used at the Subaru Telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Hamamatsu Photonics' photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) were designed specifically for the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector facility at the University of Tokyo where 2015