Kawasaki is one of the most popular manufactures in the world from Japan. The products produced by Kawasaki are like automotive, heavy equipment, space equipment and defense equipment, and ships and robots.
The Kawasaki company is also active in many industries like the aerospace and aviation, energy, railroad, shipping, automotive and other industries. The history of the founding of Kawasaki is inseparable from the figure nicknamed Kawasaki Shozo who is none other than the founder of Kawasaki.
Kawasaki Shozo was born in Japan in the Kagoshima area on December 2, 1837. At the age of 17, the young Kawasaki Shozo tried to become a kimono trader in the city of Nagasaki. Little by little his business then developed and he then began marketing his merchandise outside the city of Nagasaki.
At the age of 27, Kawasaki Shozo then began shipping his products out of town. The first area of delivery was Osaka but he faced a bitter reality when a cargo ship containing his merchandise sank late in the storm.
The following year, Kawasaki Shozo was then appointed as the vice president of the administrator of the Japan Steam Japan company a Japanese shipping service subsidiary. Kawasaki managed to open a maritime route to the Ryukyu islands and then managed to transport sugar from various regions in Japan.
But the various kinds of maritime accident disasters are like sugar carrier ships that have been wrecked by waves and tornadoes created the Shozo Kawasaki and then began to learn the technology of European and American ships. Kawasaki believes that ships made by western people are more stable and faster than ships made in Japan.
This then created the Shozo Kawasaki to become increasingly interested in the modern maritime ship industry. In 1876, supported by Matsukata Masayoshi who was the deputy finance minister of Japan and his best friend, Kawasaki Shozo then founded a shipbuilding company nicknamed the Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard in Tokyo.
The Kawasaki company began its history as a shipbuilding company and then morphed into a company that created locomotives, planes, motorcycles to missiles and other military equipment when the world war raged.
Kawasaki Shozo then died on December 2, 1912 in Japan. The Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard company then changed its name to Kawasaki Heavy Industries since the life conclusion of its founder Kawasaki Shozo.
The Kawasaki company then grew rapidly by implementing expansion to many industrial sectors such as the aerospace, railways, shipping, energy, robots, environment, infrastructure and transportation industries.
Kawasaki also has many branches throughout the world which confirm that Kawasaki is one of the largest industrial companies in the world.
