Tōa Kinzoku (東亜金属) was a Japanese company based in Shitaya (Tokyo) in 1943.^[1] At the time, it was the maker of the Midget subminiature camera distributed by Misuzu Shōkai.^[2] This camera was initially made by Jilona Shōkai from 1937, and the nature of the relationship between these two companies is unknown.

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1. ↑ Its address in 1943 was Tōkyō-to Shitaya-ku Nishi-machi 17 (東京都下谷区西町17). Source: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing the Japanese camera production as of April 1943.
2. ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), item 187.

Bibliography Edit

• "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7.