Died 1990 | ||
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Aircraft designed Mitsubishi G4M, Mitsubishi G3M Similar Jiro Horikoshi, Tatsuo Hori, Tokugawa Ieyasu | ||
Kiro Honjo (本庄 季郎, Honjō Kirō) (1901–1990) was a Japanese aircraft designer who worked for Mitsubishi and designed aircraft used in World War II such as the Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) and the Mitsubishi G4M (Betty).
He was portrayed in the 2013 Japanese animated movie The Wind Rises as a colleague of the designer of the Zero fighter, Jiro Horikoshi.
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