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Sōichirō Honda
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Japanese engineer and industrialist
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Sōichirō Honda (1906–1991) was a Japanese businessperson, engineer, and entrepreneur. Born in Shizuoka, he was a citizen of Japan and the Empire of Japan. He is identified as the owner of Honda. His professional affiliations included membership in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Honda received several awards, including the Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, the Automotive Hall of Fame, the ASME Medal, and the Holley Medal. He was a member of the Japanese ethnic group and spoke Japanese. His son was Hirotoshi Honda.
He died in Tokyo on August 5, 1991, from liver failure due to natural causes. As an author, he is associated with works such as *Hayallerin Gücü*, *Ete ni ho agete*, *Honda Soichiro kara no tegami*, and *Honda Soichiro no ichinichi ikkun*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Hayallerin Gücü
- Ete ni ho agete
- Honda Soichiro kara no tegami
- Honda Soichiro no ichinichi ikkun
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode
· 1972 · cited 31,997x
- Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells
· 2013 · cited 4,978x
- Induction of Intestinal Th17 Cells by Segmented Filamentous Bacteria
· 2009 · cited 4,088x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,670x
- Induction of Colonic Regulatory T Cells by Indigenous
<i>Clostridium</i>
Species
· 2011 · cited 3,387x
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Encyclopedic overview
Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō; 17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. 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.
Early years
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