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Namihei Odaira (小平 浪平, Odaira Namihei, January 15, 1874 – October 5, 1951) was a Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Hitachi .
Hitachi’s founder Namihei Odaira was born three years before Hesse, in 1874. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University, he went on to work at Kosaka mine, the Hiroshima Hydroelectric Power Company, Tokyo Electric Light Company, and, in 1906, at Hitachi mine.
Mar 28, 2024 · Namihei Odaira, Hitachi’s founder. Namihei Odaira was born in 1874 in Ienaka Village (present-day Tochigi City), Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. When he was a student, he chose to study electrical engineering.
Dec 20, 2023 · Hitachi founder Namihei Odaira was born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1874. As Japan struggled to overcome the challenges toward modernization, he developed the founding product "five-horsepower induction motor" while working in a repair shop of a mine.
World War II and its aftermath significantly impacted Hitachi, leading to the destruction of factories, post-war internal discord, and the removal of founder Namihei Odaira by the Allied occupational forces. Hitachi went public in 1949, listing on the Tokyo Exchange (TYO:6501).
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…in 1910 with its founder, Odaira Namihei, operating an electrical repair shop at a copper mine northeast of Tokyo. While repairing machinery for the mine, Odaira began to experiment with his own designs, and that same year he manufactured the first domestically produced 5-horsepower (3.7-kilowatt) electric motor.
