Nomura toys | TN history

Japanese toy producer. Nomura means 'field village', or 'wilderness field'.

Nomura, also known as TN, was one of the biggest and most prolific of all post-war Japanese toy makers, specialized in mostly mechanical and wind-up toys featuring creative designs.

Nomura history

Nomura was an early player in the tin game, opening its doors in the late 1940s and quickly dominating the marketplace with colorful, original tin toy vehicles that embodied the new paradigm of wakon-yosai, Japanese spirit combined with Western learning. Nomura had long been at the top of their game when Astro Boy and Tetsujin (Iron Man) 28 arrived to herald the age of homegrown SF robots, and tin was the perfect material to render them in three dimensions. Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet flew in from the US to create a perfect storm, and Nomura was right there at the epicenter.

Vintage Nomura TWA DC-9 multiaction airplane: