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Adachi Kenzō (安達 謙蔵, 20 December 1864 – 2 August 1948) was a statesman, politician and cabinet minister in Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. He participated in the 1895 assassination of the Korean queen.
Description. Son of a samurai of the Kumamoto clan. He served as an executive member of the Rikken Doshikai (Constitutional Association of Friends), the Kenseikai (Constitutional Association) and Rikken Minsei-to (Constitutional Democratic Party). He graduated from Seiseiko.
1935–1949. In December 1935, Nihon Diesel Industries, Ltd, in Kawaguchi, Japan on the outskirts of Tokyo was established under the leadership of Kenzo Adachi, where he purchased diesel engine schematics from a Krupp-Junkers patent.
Discover the fascinating history of UD Trucks, rooted in the visionary Kenzo Adachi's pursuit of diesel engines in the 1920s.
Kenzo Adachi. Adachi always dreamed of building vehicles in his own right, and with this in mind, he began negotiating with Germany-based Friedrich Krupp AG (Krupp) for permission to use its patent rights.
Kenzo Adachi, the founder of Nihon Diesel Industries and his team took on a never-give-up attitude. Their commitment and passion finally paid off in November 1938, close to three years after the company was founded, with the completion of the first diesel engine: the ND1.
Japanese political journalists. 20th-century Japanese politicians. People from Kumamoto.
