- Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
Infobox_Company
company_name = Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
company_
company_type =Subsidiary ofKawasaki Heavy Industries
slogan =
foundation =
location =Kobe ,Japan
industry =shipbuilding
products =ships
homepage = [http://www.kawasakizosen.co.jp/english/index.html]
footnotes =Nihongo|Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation|川崎造船|Kawasaki Jōsen is theshipbuilding subsidiaryKawasaki Heavy Industries . It produces primarily specialized commercial vessels, includingLNG carrier s,LPG carrier s,container ship s,bulk carrier s,oil tanker s, as well as high speed passengerjetfoil s. In addition, it is also a producer ofwarship s for theJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force , includingsubmarine s. Kawasaki also produces marine machinery, including marine engines, thrusters, steering gears, deck and fishing machinery.History
Kawasaki's origins go back to April 1878, when
Shozo Kawasaki established Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard inTokyo with the support of fellow Satsuma native and Vice Minister of Finance,Matsukata Masayoshi . [McClain, Japan:A Modern History, p. 282]In 1886, he established a second shipyard in
Kobe ,Hyōgo prefecture . With theFirst Sino-Japanese War , the two shipyards were flooded with new orders and ship repair requests. [Schenking, Making Waves, p. 183] The two shipyards were merged in 1896 as the Kawasaki Dockyard Company, Ltd. Realizing the limitation of private management, Kawasaki decided to take the company public, and (as he had no son) choseMatsukata Kojiro , the third son of Matsukata Masayoshi, as his successor. [McClain, Japan:A Modern History, p. 372] Matsukata remained president for the next 32 years until 1928. Matsukata expanded business intorolling stock ,aircraft ,automobiles and shipping. He also implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day system in 1919, after a massivestrike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government of Prime MinisterTakashi Hara . [Hane, Modern Japan, p. 225]Under Matsukata, Kawasaki Dockyards expanded its Hyōgo operations with a large
dry dock , completed in 1902. This dry dock is now listed as an Important Cultural Property by the Japanese government. In 1906, after numerous technical difficulties, Kawasaki completed the firstsubmarine s made in Japan for theImperial Japanese Navy . Kawasaki produced numerous warships for the Japanese navy, ranging fromdestroyer s toaircraft carrier s until the end of World War II. [ Spang, Japanese-German Relations. p. 45]Kawasaki started manufacturing
rolling stock in 1907, and 4 years later produced its firststeam locomotive , for the JapaneseMinistry of Railways . Kawasaki manufactured 3,237 steam locomotives in total until 1971. This division was spun off in 1928 and incorporated asKawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company .In 1918, an Aircraft Division was established at the Hyōgo Works, only 15 years after the
Wright brothers first flight. Kawasaki went on to build numerous innovative designs for theImperial Japanese Army and Navy air services prior toWorld War II . In 1937, the Aircraft Division was spun off and incorporated as Kawasaki Aircraft Co., Ltd.In 1969, Kawasaki Dockyard, Kawasaki Rolling Stock Manufacturing and Kawasaki Aircraft merged to become
Kawasaki Heavy Industries .However, in 2002, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation reemerged as a wholly-owned subsidiary company.
Products
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Oil Tanker s
*LNG carrier s
*Bulk carrier s
*Container Ship s
*Ro/Ro Vessels
*Jetfoil s
*Warship s
*Marinesteam turbine s
*Marinediesel engine s
*Marine Thrusters
*Ship Control SystemsReference
*cite book
last = Hane
first = Mikiso
year = 2001
title = Modern Japan: A Historical Survey
publisher = Westview Press
location =
id = ISBN 0813337569
*cite book
last = McCain
first = James L
year = 2001
title = Japan: A Modern History
publisher = W. W. Norton & Company
location =
id = ISBN 0393041565
*cite book
last = Schencking
first = J. Charles
year = 2005
title = Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922
publisher = Stanford University Press
location =
id = ISBN 0-8047-4977-9
*cite book
last = Spang
first = Christian W
year = 2006
title = Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945 War and Diplomacy
publisher = Routledge
location =
id = ISBN 0415342481External links
* [http://www.kawasakizosen.co.jp/english/index.html Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation]
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