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is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment, and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, ships, and space launch vehicles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Products )〕 Through its defense-related activities it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues, and the largest based in Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group. ==History== In 1857, at the request of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a group of Dutch engineers began work on the ''Nagasaki Yotetsusho'', a modern, Western-style foundry and shipyard near the Dutch settlement of Dejima, at Nagasaki.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works )〕 This was renamed ''Nagasaki Seitetsusho'' in 1860, and construction was completed in 1861. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the shipyard was placed under control of the new Government of Meiji Japan. The first dry dock was completed in 1879. In 1884, Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi, leased the ''Nagasaki Seitetsusho'' from the Japanese government, renaming it the ''Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works'' and entering the shipbuilding business on a large scale. Iwasaki purchased the shipyards outright in 1887. In 1891, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Yokohama Machinery Works was started as ''Yokohama Dock Company, Ltd''. Its main business was ship repairs, to which it added ship servicing by 1897.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Yokohama Machinery Works )〕 The works was renamed ''Mitsubishi Shipyard of Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha'' in 1893 and additional dry docks were completed in 1896 and 1905.〔 The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works was established in 1914. It produced industrial machinery and merchant ships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works )〕 The Nagasaki company was renamed ''Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Ltd.'' in 1917 and again renamed as ''Mitsubishi Heavy Industries'' in 1934. It became the largest private firm in Japan, active in the manufacture of ships, heavy machinery, airplanes and railroad cars. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries merged with the Yokohama Dock Company in 1935.〔 From its inception, the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyards were heavily involved in contracts for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The battleship ''Musashi'' was completed at Nagasaki in 1942. The ''Kobe Shipyard of Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha'' was established in 1905. The Kobe Shipyard merged with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1934. The Kobe Shipyard constructed the ocean liner ''Argentina Maru'' (later repurposed as the aircraft carrier ''Kaiyo''), and the submarines the ''I-19'' and ''I-25''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works )〕 Following the dissolution of the ''zaibatsu'' after the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, Mitsubishi divided into three companies. Mitsubishi Nagasaki became ''West Japan Heavy Industries, Ltd.'' The Nagasaki Shipyard was renamed ''Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd.'' in 1952.〔 The Mitsubishi Kobe Shipyard became ''Central Japan Heavy Industries, Ltd.'' in 1950.〔 In 1964, the three independent companies from the 1950 break-up were merged again into one company under the name of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. The Nagasaki works was renamed the ''Nagasaki Shipyard & Engine Works''. The Kobe works was renamed the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works )〕 In 1970, MHI's automobile parts department became an independent company as Mitsubishi Motors. MHI participated in a ¥540 billion emergency rescue of Mitsubishi Motors in January 2005, in partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group. As part of the rescue, MHI acquired ¥50 billion of Mitsubishi Motors stock, increasing its ownership stake to 15 percent and making the automaker an affiliate again.〔 In October 2009, MHI announced an order for up to 100 regional jets from the United States-based airline Trans States Holdings. MHI entered talks with Hitachi in August 2011 about a potential merger of the two companies, in what would have been the largest merger between two Japanese companies in history. The talks subsequently broke down and were suspended. In November 2012, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi agreed to merge their thermal power generation businesses into a joint venture to be owned 65% by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and 35% by Hitachi. The joint venture is planned to begin operations in 2014.〔〔 In June 2014 Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced their formation of joint ventures to bid for Alstom's troubled energy and transportation businesses (in locomotives, steam turbines, and aircraft engines). A rival bid by General Electric (GE) has been criticized by French government sources, who consider Alstom's operations as a "vital national interest" at a moment when the French unemployment level stands above 10% and some voters are turning towards the far-right.〔( Jens Hack and Natalie Huet, "Siemens and Mitsubishi challenge GE with Alstom offer", ''Reuters'' (June 16 2014). )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mitsubishi Heavy Industries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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