Soichiro honda biography japanese

Japanese businessman

Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō, 17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist.^[1] In 1948, 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

Honda was born in Kōmyō village, Iwata District, Shizuoka, near Hamamatsu on November 17, 1906.

Soichiro honda biography japanese

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 wh