Tamiya Chairman Shunsaku Tamiya Passes Away at 90; Helped Company Transition to Making World-Class Plastic Models
A funeral was held for close relatives only. A farewell party will be held at a later date.
He joined Tamiya (then called Tamiya Shoji) in 1958, and became its president, the second since its founding, in 1984. He helped to make the company a world-class model manufacturer through his involvement in shifting it from making wooden models to plastic ones, as well as in the development of its Mini 4WD model cars.
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