Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 9:36pm
Before becoming Subaru, the company was formerly called Fuji Heavy Industries, which, in turn, started out as the Aircraft Research Laboratory in 1915. The business went through a restructure in 1932 to become the Nakajima Aircraft Company Ltd, and it quickly rose to prominence as chief aircraft manufacturer for Japan during World War II. Nakajima Aircraft underwent another reorganization following the Second World War and this time, it became Fuji Sangyo Co. Ltd. The anti-zaibatsu legislation compelled the Fuji Sangyo Co. to restructure once more and this time, in 1950, the business got split into 12 smaller firms. Three years later, five of these firms and a newly created corporation opted to merge and establish Fuji Heavy Industries.
