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Japan has been a major toy manufacturing country since the late 1890’s. With the domestic market originally limited by widespread poverty, most of the toys were exported. Japan is well known for [...]

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In 1968, Tamiya entered into a commercial arrangement with Stabo of Germany for the supply of Lotus 40 and King Cobra kits, that included an FT16D motor for the Lotus and an FT36D motor for the [...]

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Quoting current company President Eiji Kaminaga, who kindly supplied us with this never-published information: “Marusan was the first Japanese company to produce plastic model assembly kits in [...]