ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese machinery manufacturing company, one of the suppliers to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, founded in 1920 (Kawanishi Machinery Manufacturing) and headquartered in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture. After Japan's defeat in World War II, Shinmeiwa Industries mainly produced civilian flying apparatus, construction machinery, engineering operation equipment, and three-dimensional parking equipment.