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Honda Sōichirō was born in 1906 in Hamamatsu, in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, some 150 miles from Tokyo. His father, Honda Gihei, was a blacksmith who ran a small bicycle repair shop.
In 1936, the same year the accident occurred, Mr. Honda became dissatisfied with repair work and began to plan a move into manufacturing. He took steps to turn the Hamamatsu branch into a separate company but his investors opposed his wish to start making piston rings.
Dec 1, 2019 · Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (“Honda” henceforth) was founded by Soichiro Honda in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, in September 1948 as a motorcycle production and sales company , with approximately 20 employees and a capital of JPY one million.
- Masataka Kosugi, Izumi Mitsui, Tatsuya Deguchi
- 2020
Did you know it was Honda that invented the world’s first map-based car navigation system? The Honda Electro Gyrocator is offered on Japanese-market Accords, more than a decade before GPS sat nav systems were introduced. 1982: Living in America. Honda began producing motorcycles in the USA in 1979.
Nov 13, 2009 · Motorcycle builder Soichiro Honda incorporates the Honda Motor Company in Hamamatsu, Japan. In the 1960s, the company achieved worldwide fame for its motorcycles (in particular, its C100 Super...
3 days ago · The engineer Honda Soichiro founded the Honda Technical Research Institute near Hamamatsu in 1946 to develop small, efficient internal-combustion engines. It was incorporated as Honda Motor Company in 1948 and began producing motorcycles in 1949.
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