Deliberating on a way for automotive development appropriate to Japan’s condition in the dawn of the motorization, Mr. Masujiro Hashimoto duly started production of small passenger cars named ‘DAT’, pointing the way on how Japan’s automobile industry should be in the future. In recognition of these great achievements, the Japan Automotive Hall of Fame is honored to induct Mr. Masujiro Hashimoto into the Hall of Fame.

A DAT 51 truck.

Cover of a Kwaishinsha catalog.

A 1935 presentation by Hashimoto, conducted in English and Japanese.

Hashimoto (second from right) with the first car he built, called the Swift.

The DAT prototype produced to coincide with the Tokyo Taisho Exhibition in Ueno.