General Motors Japan
{{Infobox company
| name = General Motors Japan Limited
| logo = General motors logo with wordmark.svg
| logo_size = 200
| type = Subsidiary
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1927}}
| defunct =
| location = Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
| key_people = Tad Wakamatsu (Director)
| industry = Automotive
| products = Automobiles
| parent = General Motors
| homepage = {{url|https://www.gmjapan.com/jp/home.html|gmjapan.co.jp}}
}}
General Motors Japan, Ltd. is a Japanese company that specializes in automobile imports and previously automobile production. It is the Japanese subsidiary of the American company General Motors.{{cite web|title=General Motors Japan Ltd.: Private Company Information|periodical=bloomberg.com|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=33371150|access-date=2017-04-05}}
History
General Motors built a factory in Osaka in 1927 where Knock-down kits of Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick vehicles were shipped from the United States and assembled locally.General Motors: [http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/gm/gm1926.pdf Eighteenth Annual Report of General Motors Corporation, Year ended December 31, 1926], Wilmington 1027.{{cite web|title=Von Amerika nach Japan und zurück Zeithistorische Forschungen|periodical=Zeithistorische Forschungen|url=http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2009/id%3D4462|access-date=2017-04-05|last=Volker Elis|date=2009}} From 1925 to 1935, the Japanese car market was dominated by American manufacturers (alongside GM since 1925 Ford and since 1930 also Chrysler).Stewart Lone: „Japan and the Age of Speed: Urban Society and the Automobile, 1925-30“, in [http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/6875/1/The_Automobile_in_Japan.pdf International and Japanese Studies Symposium: The Automobile in Japan], London 2005. In 1930, the combined market share of Ford and General Motors was 95%.Mark Mason: American Multinationals and Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 18991980, Harvard 1992. During its presence (1927-1939), General Motors had a market share of 42 percent.William Pelfrey, Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History, New York 2006, S. 257. Among the produced models was the brand Chevrolet. As a result of a new law in 1936, according to which existing foreign companies were not allowed to increase their annual production further, further economic and political factors led to General Motors (like other American manufacturers) withdrawing from the Japanese market in 1939.
The refoundation of General Motors Japan, Ltd. in Tokyo took place in 2001.{{cite web|title=General Motors Japan Ltd: Company Profile - Bloomberg|periodical=bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/0817713D:JP-general-motors-japan-ltd|access-date=2017-04-05}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}}
{{General Motors}}
{{Automotive industry in Japan}}
Category:Car manufacturers of Japan
Category:General Motors subsidiaries
Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1927