Tamiya kits in a hobby store in Canberra, Australia. Tamiya is a Japanese brand of model kits ranging from cars, Mini4WD, mecha, and military kits. The company survived since its HQ was located in Shizuoka City, far from any significant city to be targeted during Doomsday. The hobby of scale modeling has been around since the 1960s and abruptly came to a halt after Doomsday. However, the nostalgia for it remained and once Japan reopened back to the world in 2005, Tamiya was able to capitalize on this and continued their line of model kits while opening new factories in the Philippines, Mexico, Thailand, and the UIP.