Chikuhei Nakajima
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Chikuhei Nakajima (中島 知久平 Nakajima Chikuhei January 1, 1884 - October 10, 1949) was a Japanese military officer, engineer, and politician, who is most notable for having founded Nakajima Aircraft Company in 1917, a major supplier of airplanes to the Government of Japan during World War II. Later on in his life, he would become Japan's Minister of Commerce and Industry, a position he held until Japan's surrender at the end of the war. He is buried in Tama Cemetery near Tokyo.
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- Nakajima Aircraft Company
- Fuji Heavy Industries (the successor to his original company)
