By SHO HATSUMI/ Staff Writer
February 26, 2020 at 08:00 JST
A replica of the Zero fighter is shown at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s new museum in Nagoya’s Minato Ward. (Sho Hatsumi)
NAGOYA--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) opened a museum here showing fighter aircraft and other aviation technologies from the early 20th century that may remind visitors of scenes from Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises.”
More than 200 fighter models, exhibit panels and other displays at the museum were shown to reporters on Jan. 30, a day before its opening.
The exhibits, including a replica of the Zero fighter flown during World War II, had been on display at a plant in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, until 2017. They were sorted out and transferred to the new facility in Nagoya’s Minato Ward, which was once the main building of MHI’s Nagoya Aircraft Works in the prewar period.
Jiro Horikoshi (1903-1982), the designer of the Zero fighter and the inspiration for the protagonist in Studio Ghibli Inc.’s “The Wind Rises,” had worked there.
Aircraft design drawings and other exhibits at the museum may evoke the ambience of the hit anime.
The exhibit is available from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on a reservation basis. Bookings can be made on its website only in Japanese at: https://www.mhi.com/jp/expertise/museum/nagoya/index.html.
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