Originally located in Kagoshima, Midori has been a Japanese manufacturer of model kits and was in operation from the 1960s through the early 1970s. Apart from the usual car, tank and plane kits, they produced a fairly large line based upon Irwin Allen and Gerry Anderson science fiction franchises (such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea or Stingray, respectively) which were hugely popular in Japan at the time.