Originally Posted by Charlee

I'm going to be looking and doing websearches for awhile on this one! :lol: Never seen one, or heard of it.
Evidently tho, Hitachi is a company that also produces power tools. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that it's a Japanese company, that this is a comercial machine not originally intended for home use, and that it was made for export rather than sale to Japanese homes (Indicated by the name being done in Western (English) lettering instead of the beautiful Japanese characters. (You'll notice that the neck is stuck out only far enough to allow "speach" and not far enough to get chopped! ;) :lol: )
Fun find, and it'll be fun to find out more about it! :)