Good Times Museum Kawasaki Founder DSC_6719 1902: First ship 1906: Japan's first submarine 1908: First large naval vessel built by a private shipyard 1915: Japan's first battle cruiser 1918: Automobiles 1922: Kawasaki-Salmson reconnaissance plane 1924: First electric locomotive 1941: Fighter planes 1946: Whaling ship 1952:L Begins motorcycle business 1960: Full-scale factory established 1961: First branded motorcycle 1962: First proprietary motorcycle 1963: B8M "The Red Tank" wins 1st to 6th places Restored B8M "The Red Tank" 1964: Bullet train 1969: first GP title win on the KR-2 KR-2 1970: Japan's longest arch bridge 1974: Steel plant (South Africa) 1973: Jet Ski sales begin 1974: new factory in USA 1981: First Japanese LNG carrier 1983: GPz 900R (Ninja) wins Bike of the Year 1988: jet plane 1988: Tunnel boring machine for Eurotunnel Tunnel excavation 1989: Jetfoil 1995-1997: Bullet trains 1997: World's largest boiler 2000: First all-Japanese helicopter 2001: World's first movable natural-grass soccer field 2004: Shinkansen bullet train 2008: New 350km/h high-speed train DSC_6708 Bridges Soccer fields Airplanes Motorbikes Motorbikes Motorbikes Motorbikes Motorbikes Motorbikes Motorbikes Motorbikes Bullet train Ship Inside Bullet train Robot solves Rubik's cube