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    Soichiro Honda

    Japanese businessman

    Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō, 17 November &#; 5 August ) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist.[1] In , he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer.[4]

    Early years

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    Honda was born in Kōmyō village, Iwata District, Shizuoka, near Hamamatsu on November 17, He spent his early childhood helping his father, Gihei Honda, a blacksmith, with his bicycle repair business. At the time his mother, Mika Honda, was a weaver.[5] Honda was not interested in traditional education. His school handed grade reports to the children, but required that they be returned stamped with the family seal, to make sure that a parent had seen it. Honda created a stamp to forge his family seal out of a used rubber bicycle pedal cover.[6] The fraud was soon discovered when he started to

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    Honda

    Japanese multinational manufacturing company

    This article is about the multinational corporation. For other uses, see Honda (disambiguation).

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    Headquarters in Minato, Tokyo

    Native name

    		本田技研工業株式会社

    Romanized name

    		Honda Giken Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha
    Company typePublic

    Traded as

    IndustryManufacturing
    FoundedHamamatsu, Japan (October&#;; 78&#;years ago&#;(), incorporated 24&#;September ; 76 years ago&#;())
    FounderSoichiro Honda
    Headquarters

    Minato, Tokyo

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    Japan

    Area served

    		Worldwide

    Key people

    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]

    • United States: 18,
    • Brazil: 7,
    • Thailand: 7,
    • India: 7,
    • Vietnam: 5,
    • Mexico: 4,
    • Canada: 4,
    • Indonesia: 2,

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      In , the same year the accident occurred, Mr. Honda became dissatisfied with repair work and began to strategi a move into manufacturing. He took steps to turn the Hamamatsu branch into a separate company but his investors opposed his wish to uppstart making piston rings. Since he was making good money through his repair work they could not see the need to embark on an unnecessary new venture. Mr. Honda did not give up but sought the help of an acquaintance bygd the name of Shichiro Kato, and set up the Tokai Seiki Heavy Industry, or Tokai Seiki for short, with Kato as President. He threw himself into this new project and started the Art Piston Ring Research Center, working by day at the old Art Shokai and developing piston rings at night.

      Following a series of technical failures he enrolled as a part-time lärjunge at Hamamatsu Industrial Institute (now the Faculty of Engineering at Shizuoka University) so as to improve his knowledge of metallurgy. Nearly two years went by during which he wo