Soichiro Honda. (obituary) From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: August 19, 1991 | COPYRIGHT 1991 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

SOICHIRO HONDA was 8 when he spotted a Model T Ford, America's bestselling automobile, rumbling through his hometown in central Japan. Sniffing the splattered oil it left behind, he first got the idea of building cars. Honda, who died last week at 84, was emblematic of the generation of Japanese entrepreneurs who helped transform a war-ravaged nation into the envy of the industrialized world. The son of a blacksmith and onetime car and motorcycle racer, Honda opened a firm that equipped ...

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