Soichiro Honda (1906 to 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist who established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in 1948 and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors into a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Born in Komyo village near Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, he left home at 15 to work as an apprentice car mechanic in Tokyo and started his own auto repair business in 1928. In 1937 he founded Tokai Seiki to produce piston rings for Toyota, and after the war he founded the Honda Technical Research Institute, then built the Type A motorized bicycle and the Type D motorcycle. With Takeo Fujisawa running the finances he turned Honda into a billion-dollar multinational, remained president until 1973 and was appointed supreme advisor in 1983.
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