As injection-molded plastic rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s, Tamiya made the move to the new technology, and the first plastic Tamiya kits began to appear on store shelves in Japan.

Shunsaku Tamiya, who turned his family’s plastic model business into a global brand, held a scale replica of a German World War II Tiger tank at the hobby show in Shizuoka, Japan, in 2003 ...

Shunsaku Tamiya, chairman of the Japanese plastic model assembly kit maker Tamiya Inc., has died, the company said Tuesday. He was 90.

Tamiya Corporation has been around ever since the end of World War II, so when they decided to take their most popular scale model car and build a functional, full-size replica, we knew they were ...

If so you'll know that the models to have back then were mostly made by Japan's Tamiya Corporation. These included the Midnight Pumpkin, Hornet, Frog, Grasshopper and – for the especially well ...

Buczkowski had a bit of a Godzilla city-destroying look as he stood over the one-sixteenth scale models of three tanks, two Pershing and one Russian, made from kits put out by Tamiya Corp.