Editing Nissan (section)

===Nissan Motor ===
In 1934, Aikawa separated the expanded automobile parts division of Tobata Casting and incorporated it as a new subsidiary, which he named {{nihongo|'''Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.'''|日産自動車|Nissan Jidōsha}}.<ref name="Odin, L.C. 1939">{{cite book |last=Odin |first=L.C. |title=World in Motion 1939, The whole of the year's automobile production |publisher=Belvedere Publishing |year=2015 |asin=B00ZLN91ZG}}</ref> The shareholders of the new company; however, were not enthusiastic about the prospects of the automobile in Japan, so Aikawa bought out all the Tobata Casting shareholders (using capital from Nihon Industries) in June 1934. At this time, Nissan Motor effectively became owned by [[Nissan Group|Nihon Sangyo and Hitachi]].<ref>Cusumano, page 37</ref>

In 1935, the construction of its Yokohama plant was completed. 44 Datsuns were shipped to Asia, Central and South America. In 1935, the first car manufactured by an [[Assembly line|integrated assembly system]] rolled off the line at the Yokohama plant.<ref name="NISSANCORPORATEHISTORY"/> Nissan built trucks, airplanes, and engines for the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. In November 1937 Nissan moved its headquarters to [[Changchun|Xinjing]], the capital of [[Manchukuo]]. In December the company changed its name to [[Manchurian Industrial Development Company|Manchuria Heavy Industries Developing Co]] (MHID).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ebha-bhsj-paris.sciencesconf.org/6602|title=Manchurian Industrial Development: Companies and the Development of Manchuria under Occupation|publisher=EBHA-BHSJ Paris 2012|year=2012|access-date=15 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102024327/http://ebha-bhsj-paris.sciencesconf.org/6602|archive-date=2 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Development and Management of Manchurian Economy under the Japan Empire |url=http://www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/dp/2013/2013cf899.pdf |first=Tetsuji |last=Okazaki |publisher=University of Tokyo |date=August 2013 |access-date=21 January 2017 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002403/http://www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/dp/2013/2013cf899.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1940, the first knockdown kits were shipped to [[Dowa Automobile Company|Dowa Jidosha Kogyo (Dowa Automobile)]], one of MHID's companies, for assembly.<ref name="NISSANCORPORATEHISTORY"/> In 1944, the head office was moved to [[Nihonbashi|Nihonbashi, Tokyo]], and the company name was changed to Nissan Heavy Industries, Ltd., which the company kept through 1949.<ref name="NISSANCORPORATEHISTORY"/>