About Ryoichi Nakagawa
Lived 1913 – 1998 (aged 85). Ryoichi Nakagawa was a Japanese military flight engineer and engineer.
was a Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1936 and joined Nakajima Aircraft Company in the same year.
Career
After World War II, Nakajima Aircraft Company was disbanded and was banned from producing aircraft by the GHQ. It was divided into 12 companies. Two of them were Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) and Fuji Precision Industries (Prince Motors). Prince Motor Company operated out of the old Nakajima premises in Ogikubo, Tokyo and Nakagawa was appointed the senior engineering manager, leading its engineers. He supervised all the Prince vehicles projects including Skyline, Gloria, R380, S390P-1 Royal limousine and others.
He received a Doctorate of Engineering from his old school Tokyo University in 1961.
He died on July 30, 1998.
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Japanese engineer
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Ryoichi Nakagawa was born on 27 April 1913 in Tokyo.
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Ryoichi Nakagawa died on 30 July 1998 in Tokyo.
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Ryoichi Nakagawa was a military flight engineer and engineer.
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