August 31, 2012

Soichiro Honda

Soichiro Honda was born on November 17, 1906, in the village of Komyo (now Dragon City), I wata County, Shizuoka Prefecture, as the eldest son of Gihei Honda and his wife Mika. Gihei is a skilled, honest blacksmith and Mika an accomplished knitter. The family was poor, but the growth of Soichiro happy, despite his parents insisted on the need of the basic disciplines. This is because he had received from his father, Mr. Honda, despite his freewheeling, irrepressible personality, hate what trouble others, and keep the dates are always very prompt and comprehensive education. He is also the dexterity of the hand of his innate curiosity and his inheritance from his father.
 
 After a period of time, Gihei opened a bike shop. The bike finally started to become very popular in Japan, When people ask Gihei repair the machine, he felt opportunities. Work as a blacksmith, he put his natural skills and a willingness to learn, to good effect, repair second-hand bike, and then sold to a competitive price. From that moment on, his business began to be regarded as the best bicycle shop in the vicinity.

When he was about to leave, primary, Soichiro Honda the Tokyo Art Association, the auto repair company saw an ad in a magazine called "bike world" (wheel industry in the world). The ad itself is not a bike, but for "the manufacture and repair of cars, motorcycles and gasoline. Even as a child Honda has been excited about the first car ever seen in his village, and later on in life often said he will never will never forget it to the smell of oil. So, it is not difficult to imagine that the young Honda saw the ad, he immediately decided that he must work in the arts Chamber of Commerce.

It is placed in the car and bike magazine ads by the number of point of view, art associations must be one of the top car repair workshop in Tokyo, about any number of young men eager to become an apprentice. Soichiro Honda saw the ad, in fact, is not a recruitment advertising, he plucked up the courage to submit a letter and asked to become an apprentice. Is there a way to know exactly what he wrote, but in any case, it is very fortunate that he has been answered in the affirmative.

In April 1922, Soichiro Honda Elementary School as an apprentice at the age of 15, Tokyo Hongo Yushima and join artistic Chamber of Commerce. Employment in those days was a world, in addition to what we now look forward to. Youth given room and board and a small pocket of money, but they did not get any real wages. Mr. Honda's writings and biography, including his time in the company of many stories, but the important point is that his experience had a great impact on the exercise of his later life.
 
Hard work and requires a rapid appreciation of improvisation, want for their ability to provide a wealth of new ideas, a good feel of the machine enthusiasm. Art trade associations, employers have three Sakakibara, soon discovered that the star qualities of this young man, and began to take notice of him. Soichiro Honda, also learned from his boss, not just how to do the repair work, but how to deal with customers and are proud of the technical capabilities of the importance. Sakakibara is ideal for teachers, engineers, and businessmen. And to understand the repair work, he also specializes in more complex processes such as the manufacture of piston.

When Honda someone asked him the most respected, he always refers to his old boss Yuzo Sakakibara. Important to remember, the the art maintenance work of the Chamber of Commerce, including motorcycles and cars. Then ownership of cars, motorcycles are restricted to a limited social class, most cars are manufactured in foreign countries. Compared with today, there is a host of car manufacturing company, large and small, all over the world and their output range from models of large-scale production of high-quality automotive and small batch production sports car, a very unusual collection home projects, all of which are imported to Japan.

The maintenance car brought a variety of artistic Chamber of Commerce, Honda work and learn, eager, even greedy, because he is an ideal place in the pursuit of knowledge.

Kawashima said, Mr. Honda worked hard to automotive engineering to expand and deepen his understanding, and his praise is not absolutely the extent of his expertise. He is well versed in each of these mechanisms. "When his apprenticeship, art Chamber of Commerce, the Hamamatsu branch manager, older people have learned a lot of things, and do the real work and the real machine, said:" Kawashima. "He's not just theoretical knowledge, he is an expert in a variety of practical tasks, such as welding and forging those of us who are just on paper, from the academic point of view, just can not compete."

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