Subaru Corporation
Kabushiki-gaisha Subaru, formerly Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd., is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate primarily involved in both terrestrial and aerospace transportation manufacturing. It is best known for its line of Subaru automobiles. Founded in 1953, the company was named Fuji Heavy Industries until 2017.
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Subaru Corporation

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- Subaru Corporation
- Founded
- 1953
- Headquarters
- Shibuya
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Kabushiki-gaisha Subaru, formerly Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd., is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate primarily involved in both terrestrial and aerospace transportation manufacturing. It is best known for its line of Subaru automobiles. Founded in 1953, the company was named Fuji Heavy Industries until 2017.
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Overview
Overview
The company's aerospace division is a defense contractor to the Japanese government, manufacturing Boeing and Lockheed Martin helicopters and airplanes under license. This same division is a global development and manufacturing partner to both companies.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Subaru Corporation • Native Name — 株式会社SUBARU • Romanized Name — Kabushiki-gaisha SUBARU • Former Name — Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. (1953–2017) • Type — Public • Traded As — * TOPIX Large 70 Component • Predecessor — Nakajima Aircraft Company • Hq Location City — Ebisu, Shibuya, Tokyo • Hq Location Country — Japan • Revenue — 3,344.11 billion • Revenue Year — FY2020 • Operating Income — 210.32 billion • Income Year — FY2020 • Net Income — 152.59 billion • Net Income Year — FY2020 • Assets — 3,293.91 billion • Assets Year — FY2020 • Equity — 1,720.12 billion • Equity Year — FY2020 • Key People — * Tomomi Nakamura (chairman) • Atsushi Osaki (president and CEO) • Divisions — * Automobile (Subaru) • Aerospace • Industry — Automotive, transportation equipment manufacturing, defense • Products — Automobiles, aircraft, aircraft parts, helicopters • Owners — * Toyota (20.42%) • The Master Trust Bank of Japan investment trusts (14.15%) • Custody Bank of Japan investment trusts (5.28%) • State Street Bank West Client - Treaty 505234 (1.56%) (As of 2024 09)
History
History
Fuji Heavy Industries traces its roots to the Nakajima Aircraft Company, a leading supplier of airplanes to the Japanese government during World War II. At the end of World War II, Nakajima was broken up by the Allied Occupation government under keiretsu legislation, and by 1950 part of the separated operation was already known as Fuji Heavy Industries. FHI was incorporated on July 15, 1953, when five Japanese companies, known as Fuji Kogyo, Fuji Jidosha Kogyo, Omiya Fuji Kogyo, Utsunomiya Sharyo, and Tokyo Fuji Sangyo, joined to form one of Japan's largest manufacturers of transportation equipment. By late 1980s, the company was a major supplier of military, aerospace and railroad equipment in Japan, but 80% of its sales came from automobiles. Sales in 1989 fell 15% to US$4.3 billion. In 1990, the company faced a loss of over US$500 million. Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd., the main bank of the company, asked Nissan, which owned 4.2% of the company, to step in. Nissan sent Isamu Kawai, the president of Nissan Diesel Motor Co., to take charge of FHI. In 1991, FHI started contract-manufacturing Nissan Pulsar (Nissan Sunny in Europe) sedans and hatchbacks. Currently, the Subaru Corporation makes Subaru brand cars, and its aerospace division makes utility and attack helicopters for the Japanese Self Defense Force, trainers, unmanned aerial vehicles, and the center wings of Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 jets. In the past, FHI made parts for the Hawker Beechcraft and Eclipse Aviation business jets. In 2003, the company adopted the logo of its Subaru automobile division as its worldwide corporate symbol. On October 5, 2005 Toyota purchased 8.7% of FHI shares from General Motors, which had owned 20.1% since 1999. GM later divested its remaining 11.4% stake on the open market to sever all ties with FHI. FHI previously stated there might have been 27 million shares (3.4%) acquired before the start of trading by an unknown party on October 6, 2005, and speculation suggested a bank or perhaps another automaker was involved. After the purchase, Toyota announced a contract with Subaru on March 13, 2006, to use the underutilized Subaru manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as plans to hire up to 1,000 workers and set aside an assembly line for the Camry, beginning in the second quarter of 2007. In June 2014, the company entered into a contract with Boeing Commercial Airplanes, as one of five major Japanese companies contracted, to build parts for Boeing's 777X aircraft. In May 2016, Fuji Heavy Industries announced that it would change its name to Subaru Corporation, with the change effective on April 1, 2017.
Leadership
Leadership
• Kenji Kita (1953–1956) • Takao Yoshida (1956–1963) • Nobuo Yokoda (1963–1970) • Eiichi Ohara (1970–1978) • Sasaki Sadamichi (1978–1985) • Toshihiro Tajima (1985–1990) • Isamu Kawaii (1990–1996) • Takeshi Tanaka (1996–2001) • Kyoji Takenaka (2001–2006) • Ikuo Mori (2006–2011) • Yasuyuki Yoshinaga (2011–2018) • Tomomi Nakamura (2018–2023) • Atsushi Osaki (2023–present)
Divisions
Divisions
Subaru has two main divisions: • The automobile division, Subaru. • The aerospace division is a contractor for the Japan Defense Agency and markets and sells both commercial and defense-related aircraft, helicopters and target drones. It will also be responsible for providing maintenance for the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft. This division previously built the FA-200 Aero Subaru and is currently participating in the Airbus A380, Boeing 777, Boeing 787, Hawker 4000 and Eclipse 500 programs, and supplies parts for the Boeing 737, Boeing 747 and Boeing 767.
Former divisions
Former divisions
• Subaru discontinued the production of buses and railroad cars in 2003. • The eco technology division manufactured and sold garbage trucks, robot sweepers, and wind turbines. • Discontinued in 2017, the Subaru Industrial Power Products division manufactured and sold commercial engines, pumps and generators which were formerly under the Subaru-Robin and Robin brands. Subaru's industrial products division began manufacturing "Star" engines for Polaris Industries snowmobiles in 1968 but engine manufacturing operations ended in 1998 when Polaris Industries started to build their own Liberty two-stroke engines. Subaru remains an invested partner with, and supplier of pistons to, Polaris. Subaru has provided more than 2 million engines used in Polaris snowmobiles, ATVs, watercraft and utility vehicles.
Bus models
Bus models
• Illustration — A 5E body with Isuzu Cubic chassis • Illustration — A 7E body articulated bus with Volvo B10M chassis • Illustration — A 1M body with Nissan Diesel Space Arrow chassis • R13 • 13 • 3A/3B/3D/3E • R1/R2 • R14 • 14 • 4B/4E • R15 • 5B/5E • R1/R2/R3 • HD1/HD2/HD3 • Double-decker • R16 • 6B/6E • H1 • R17 • 7B/7E • 7HD • 7S • R18 • 8B/8E • R21 • 1M/1S
Aircraft
Aircraft
• Fuji FA-200 Aero Subaru (1965) - monoplane/light aircraft • Fuji/Rockwell Commander 700 (1975) - light transport • Fuji KM-2 (1962) - light primary military trainer • Fuji LM-1 Nikko (1955) - light communications military aircraft • Fuji T-1 (1958) - intermediate military jet trainer • Fuji T-3/KM-2 (1974) - primary military trainer • Fuji T-5/KM-2 Kai (1984) - basic military trainer • Fuji T-7/T-3 Kai (1998) - primary military trainer • Fuji TACOM UAV. • Subaru-Bell UH-X - Ongoing project to meet the JGSDF's requirement for a UH-1J replacement. Bell Helicopter is Fuji's foreign partner in the competition. A variant of the UH-X may also ultimately fill the JMSDF's recently (October 2014) revealed requirement for a New Patrol Helicopter (to enter service in 2022).
Railway rolling stock
Railway rolling stock
Some products were built in Utsunomiya Sharyo era (1950–1955).
Japan
Japan
• DMU • JNR - KiHa_10_series, KiHa_20_series, 35, 40, KiHa_45_series, KiHa_55_series, KiHa_58_series, KiHa_80_series, 181, 183, 185, KiYa_191_series series, • KiHa_31, KiHa_32, KiHa_37, KiHa_54 types • JR Hokkaido - KiHa 150, KiHa 201, KiHa 281, KiHa 283, and KiHa 261 series. • JR East - KiHa 100 and 110 series • JR Central - KiHa 85 series • JR Shikoku - 2000 series • Mōka Railway - Moka_14 - The final products of railway rolling stock as Subaru • Chizu Express - HOT7000 series • Passenger Car • JNR - 10 series railcar, 12 series, 14 series, 24 series(JNR), 50 series rail car • JR East - E26 series • EMU • JNR - 70_series(JNR), 80 series • Tobu Railway - 300, 2000, 5000, 6050, 8000, 9000, 10000, 30000 series • Tokyo subway - Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) 2000 series • Tram • Tobu Railway - 100, 200 series • Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation - 2500, 6000 type
Russia
Russia
• DMU - D2 multiple unit
Thailand
Thailand
• DMU - NKF multiple unit
Institutional history
Dated record
Institutional history
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Subaru Corporation established.
1953
Subaru Corporation is recorded from 1953.
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reference work
- “Subaru Corporation”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- History of Mechanical engineering Heritage 「SUBARU360」and SUBARU CORPORATION, The Proceedings of Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan, 2017
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2017
Literature
Literature
History of Mechanical engineering Heritage 「SUBARU360」and SUBARU CORPORATION, The Proceedings of Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan, 2017.
Notes from the source article
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Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.The FY2020 (Fiscal Year 2020) in this article is from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.
- 2.Subaru. Annual Report 2020.
- 3.Directors of the Board / Executive Officers.
- 4.Stock Overview - Subaru Corporation.
- 5."Former Nissan Executive Will Head Fuji". Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1990
- 6."For Bankrupt Companies, Happiness Is a Warm Keiretsu" by Robert Neff, Bloomberg, Oct 25, 1992
- 7."Fuji to Build Nissan Models", Chicago Tribune, January 27, 1991.
- 8.Fuji Heavy Industries. Fuji Heavy Industries Adopts Subaru's Six-Star Emblem as New Corporate Symbol. 15 July 2003.
- 9.Shimizu, Kaho. Toyota to buy Fuji shares in GM selloff. The Japan Times. 2005-10-06.
- 10.Boeing enters pact with Japanese consortium for supply of 777X plane parts. Chicago Chronicle.
- 11.Alexander Stoklosa. Subaru Parent Fuji Heavy Industries Changes Its Name to Subaru Corp. Car and Driver. 12 May 2016.
- 12.News Release. Subaru Corporation. 31 March 2017.
- 13.株式会社SUBARU(スバル)企業情報サイト.
- 14.Subaru. Shooting for the stars is in our name.
- 15.Tanaka, Takeshi. A Speech by Takeshi Tanaka, President and Chief Executive Officer Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. Subaru. 1999-12-10.
- 16.Greimel, Hans. Subaru taps N. America head as global president. Automotive News. 2018-03-02.
- 17.Subaru. Subaru Corporation Announces Management Changes. 2018-03-02.
- 18.Aircraft Maintainers Demonstrate MV-22B Osprey Systems at Atsugi April 23, 2016 DVIDS Retrieved November 14, 2016
- 19.Osprey noise levels measured at GSDF’s Kisarazu camp in Chiba Prefecture October 25, 2016 Japan Times Retrieved November 14, 2016
- 20.Polaris and Fuji: A Long History of a Powerful Partnership.
- 21.Corporate Profile. Subaru Corporation.
- 22.Kelly, Tim. Foreign firms bid for $2 billion chopper deal. Reuters. June 11, 2014.
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scholarly publication
History of Mechanical engineering Heritage 「SUBARU360」and SUBARU CORPORATION, The Proceedings of Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan, 2017Crossref registry
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