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Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda (Japanese: Soichiro Honda, November 17, 1906 - August 5, 1991) was born in Guangming Village, Iwata County, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (later changed to Tenryu City, now the Tenryu area of Hamamatsu City). Japanese entrepreneur, mechanical engineer, founder of Honda Giken Industrial Co., Ltd. Soichiro Honda and Sony's Dai Ibuka are world-famous as Japan's postwar technology entrepreneurs. As the founder of HONDA, Soichiro Honda used his extraordinary courage and scientific research spirit to develop Honda from a motorcycle repair shop into the world's number one motorcycle company and automobile manufacturer.
- Category
- Entrepreneurs
- Nationality
- Japan
- Born
- 1906-11-17
- Died
- 1991-08-05
- Wikidata
- Q313304
