Rolls-Royce Japan, President, Susumu Kaminaga at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Asia 2026
Rolls-Royce Japan, President, Susumu Kaminaga spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Asia 2026, hosted in Hokkaido, Japan, about the latest industry trends and company developments.
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Transcript
Susumu Kaminaga:The importance of the Japan market for Rolls-Royce is that our customers, of course, very big, very prestigious, and it is our privilege to provide the flagship products to these airlines. And what is unique with our customers in Japan is they operate widebody aircraft domestically. So they do a lot more cycles than the other airliners who do international flights mainly. So what that provides us is the experience of high-cycle operation, which also comes with the challenges of making sure that we are supporting those customers with such a different way of using our engines. But it helps us with accumulating the data, providing us with honest feedback, and then it will enable improving our products into the future and other customers as well. The importance of Japan as a manufacturing partner is Japan provides very, very high, complex, high-accuracy products at high volume. So Japan incorporates all the experiences from like the automotive industry to do the high volume, high precision at high rate. And that helps with our engines, which are obviously requiring this high precision. Also, Japanese partners have very different ways of looking at business. You know, they are willing to take long-term business views. So we have risk and revenue sharing partners like Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, who are willing to invest into our programs and work with us for decades rather than shorter-term contract basis. And that will help us massively operating and developing the program products, which require a very long-term view to operate.
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