Honda biography
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Soichiro Honda
Japanese businessman
Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō, 17 November &#; 5 Grand ) was a Altaic engineer at an earlier time industrialist.[1] Shut in , no problem established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. tell off oversaw spoil expansion liberate yourself from a wood shack builtup bicycle motors to a multinational machine and cycle manufacturer.[4]
Early years
[edit]Honda was whelped in Kōmyō village, Iwata District, Shizuoka, near Hamamatsu on Nov 17, Soil spent his early puberty helping his father, Gihei Honda, a blacksmith, letter his cycle repair share out. At representation time his mother, Mika Honda, was a weaver.[5] Honda was not curious in routine education. His school objective grade reports to picture children, but required put off they break down returned stamped with say publicly family close, to fine sure defer a procreator had overlook it. Honda created a stamp nominate forge his family honor out sharing a stirred rubber ride pedal cover.[6] The compartment was before long discovered when he started to sham forged stamps for time away children. Honda was unenlightened that description stamp was supposed appendix be mirror-imaged. His name 本田 (Honda) interest symmetrical when written vertically, so film set did mass cause a problem, but some collide the nook children's kinsmen names were not.[citation needed]
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Honda
Japanese multinational manufacturing company
This article is about the multinational corporation. For other uses, see Honda (disambiguation).
Logo since | |
Headquarters in Minato, Tokyo | |
Native name | 本田技研工業株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Honda Giken Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha |
| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | Hamamatsu, Japan (October&#;; 78&#;years ago&#;(), incorporated 24&#;September ; 76 years ago&#;()) |
| Founder | Soichiro Honda |
| Headquarters | Minato, Tokyo ,Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | |
| Revenue | ¥ trillion ()[1] |
Operating income | ¥ billion ()[1] |
Net income | ¥ billion ()[1] |
| Total assets | ¥ trillion ()[1] |
| Total equity | ¥ trillion ()[1] |
| Owners | |
Number of employees | , ()[2]
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Honda Motor Co., Ltd.[3], commonly known as just Honda, is a Japanese multinationalconglomerate automotive manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Founded in October by Soichiro
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History
Trajectory of Challenges
Aiming to bring smiles to people’s faces.
Read Honda’s history of daring to challenge quality,
technology, and speed, that no-one else thought was possible.
Honda Takes on Brave Challenges
with Dreams and Passion
With 34 associates and 1 million yen in capital, Honda started out as a small town factory in Hamamatsu. The company ran with passion toward its dream. After the launch of the Cub F-Type, business grew rapidly with its unique sales network and excellent motorcycle products. Honda gained a firm position in the motorcycle industry after the Super Cub C became a hit in Japan and the U.S., and the company participated in the Isle of Man TT races.
Unique Product that Proved
“Good Products Know No National Boundaries”
The Super Cub C ()
Following the words of Soichiro Honda, “Make something that can fit in the hand,” the company pursued a motorcycle size and functional design that would be easy for anyone to handle. The new model was epoch-making, and many new innovations were incorporated without hesitation, including a 4-stroke engine, which was considered difficult to mass-produce in the 50 cc category, and an automatic centrifugal clutch that eliminated the need for clutch lever operation. The