The Wind Rises is a fictional account on the life ofJiroHorikoshi, the engineerwhodesignedtheMitsubishi A6M Zero, a fighter planeused in the attackon Pearl Harbor in1941.
It is destined for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's largest weapons producer.
It is set for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's top weapons producer.
Mitsubishi's hand-in-glove relations with Tokyo continued through WWII, when it cranked out Zero fighters, battleships and Kirin beer to keep Japan's military machine going.