Japanese tinplate toys 🇯🇵🇺🇸

After the World War 2, tin toys were produced in large numbers in Japan. Under occupation, manufacturers in Japan were granted the right to resume production. The idea was to give Japan all of the low profit; high labor manufacturing and the US companies could sell the imported product. It worked better than they had expected and Japan became a tin toy manufacturing force until the end of the 1950s. In the 1960s cheaper plastic and new government safety regulations ended the reign of tin toys. Presently, China has taken over the role of the leading tin toy manufacturing country. M-4 tank - Taiyo (Japan, 60s) 30X14X15 cm Beppe Deplano's collection (Cagliary, Italy).