Soichiro Honda was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Honda Motor Company. Some of his achievements include inventing mopeds, motorcycles and cars. He started his career repairing bicycles and cars before opening his own workshop. After facing initial rejections, he invented piston rings which became very successful. This allowed him to open his own factory to produce mopeds. Honda later pioneered modern motorcycles and grew his company into a multibillion dollar business selling a wide range of vehicles and engines worldwide. He received many honors for his entrepreneurship and inventions before passing away in 1991.

1. Japanese Henry Ford
By: Asif Ali Zardari (23) BBA (14)

2. Soichiro Honda

3. Achievements
• Japanese entrepreneur & Inventor
• Invented Mopeds, Motorcycles & Cars
• Founder of the Honda Motor Co., Inc.
corporation and automobile companies in
the U.S. and Japan.
• Super Cub, Acura, Civic, Accord, Prelude,
City, Honda HoverCar etc
• Owner of multibillion-dollar status.

4. Achievements
• People from more than 140 countries around the
world buy its bikes, cars, boat motors, mini-
tractors, autonomous power stations, tillers for
farmers and other mechanisms equipped with
gasoline engines.

5. Biography
• 17 November 1906
• Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

6. Family Background
• His mother, Mika, was a weaver
• And his father, Gihei, was a blacksmith, who ran
a bicycle repair business.
• His father was buying broken bikes for a
knockdown price in Tokyo, repairing and selling
them to all comers. Soichiro was helping his
father

7. Soichiro’s Life
• In 1922, after finishing eight years of schooling,
Soichiro noticed a job.
• He joined Art Shokai Auto Repair Shop as an
Helper in Tokyo.
• After that he was permanently selected as an
assistant in that workshop on 5 years contract.
• In 3 years of signing contract he observed that
he will never Learn what he wants.
• He joined a new company which repaired the
new car models with latest technology.
• He was a part of new company for three years.

8. Beginning Of Struggle
• After 6 years he come back to village.
• He opened a garage in his village where he
repaired the cars of villagers.
• After 4 years he opened a mini factory which can
produce spare parts of the cars.

9. Initial Try
• He made some spare parts.
• The companies rejected to buy his mechanical
spare parts. With saying that “we don’t need
your mechanical spare parts.”

10. Piston Invention
• “find problem then its solution”
• Said the director of a company.

11. Don’t Give Up
• Nonsense, utter nonsense about the parts we'll
discuss later, first I would like to say that the way
you talk, walk a very bad tone all, the whole
speech. It seems like that you are illiterate.
• These words were from Director of TOYOTA
corporation, when he presented his invented first
piston ring for TOYOTA.

12. Tokai Seiki
• In 1937, Honda opened his own business in
Hamamatsu., Honda founded the company
‘Tokai Seiki’ and started producing the piston
rings, production technology of which had been
finally found.
• Now he was 40% piston provider for TOYOTA
Corporation.

13. World War II

14. Challenges
• In 1945 (During World War II) his factory was
‘Tokai Seiki’ was targeted by American B-29.
• His factory’s central plant was destroyed.
• His reaction:
• No problem, Not much damage has been done,
said smiling
• In January 1945 his factory was again damaged
by an earthquake.
• After that he sold out his factory to TOYOTA
Corporation in 4,50000 yen.

15. Starting a new Era
• He invented first Moped at his home.
• He received many orders to make these moped.

16. HRI
• In 1946 Honda opened his own ‘factory’ with a
grandiloquent name – ‘Honda Technical
Research Institute’

17. 15000 Letters
• After building of ‘Honda Technical Research
Institute’ he did not have any more funds.
• He wrote 15000 letters to all Bicycle factory
owners and Bicycle distributors to invest in his
business
• First production consist of 200 mopeds.
• Unfortunately, this production was rejected by
Japanese public, because they were heavy and
made loud noise and also were ugly.

18. Honda A -Type
The next model of moped proved itself
best. Because it was light, beautiful and
made low noise.

19. Pioneer Of Modern MotorBikes
• In 1949, the first model of a motorcycle with a
two-stroke engine Soichiro called ‘The Dream’.
Two years later he started the production of a
model with four-stroke engine.

20. Economical Revenge

22. Legend Lives Forever
• The legendary businessman died on August 5,
1991. By the end of his life he came up with a
large store of achievements, which were 470
inventions and 150 patents, honorary doctorate
at Michigan Technical University and Ohio State
University, the highest honor of his country –
Japan’s Blue Ribbon – and many other more
achievements. Starting a business having $
3,200 thousand dollars, he created the largest
company with annual revenue of more than $ 30
billion dollars