Japanese make Hispano Suiza Engines

Japanese first flight was ten years after the Wright Brothers first flight.
Captain Tokugawa who was one of the descendants of Shougun was the pilot.

I found an engine made in 1920's at Akeno JSDF army flight school.

It may be one of the engines which Mitsubishi got a licence to make Hispano Suiza company.
Mitsubishi made 200hp, 300hp and 450hp engines.
The one I saw may be 200hp from the shape of exhaust section.

I saw 450hp one at Japanese Airo Sicence Museum but a small one is not common.

After the WWII, it is said that in very short period Japanese destroied all the weapons by the order of the Allied Force Head Quater. Big ones were scraped as metel and smaller ones dumped into deep seas. Of couse some American took for their soubenirs.

So Japanese did not kill any enemy used be after the war.

see, http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/japaneseweapons
http://www.japaneseweapons.com