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| image = File:Soichiro Honda portrait.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date|1906|11|17|df=yes}}<ref name=Brittanica/>
| birth_place = [[Hamamatsu]], [[Shizuoka Prefecture|Shizuoka]], [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]<ref name=Brittanica/>
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|8|5|1906|11|17|df=yes}}<ref name=Brittanica/>
| death_place = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]<ref name=Brittanica/>
| nationality = [[Japanese nationality law|Japanese]]
| known_for = Founder of [[Honda Motor Co., Ltd.]]
| occupation = [[Engineering]]
| spouse = Sachi Honda (el que edito esta fecha es tonto, como va casarse en 1914 si su conyugue fue en l año 1935 y murio 1991, el 2013 no tiene sentido1914–2013)<ref>[http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/rip-sachi-honda-widow-of-honda-motor-co-ltd-founder-soichiro-honda/ R.I.P. Sachi Honda, Widow Of Honda Motor Co. Ltd. Founder Soichiro Honda] ''Road Racing World'', December 18 2013. Retrieved July 19 2018</ref>
| children = [[Hirotoshi Honda]],<br />Yasuhiro Watanabe<ref>{{Cite news|date=1983-11-06|title=Yasuhiro Watanabe|language=de|work=Der Spiegel|url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/yasuhiro-watanabe-a-dd095364-0002-0001-0000-000014022756|access-date=2022-01-21|issn=2195-1349}}</ref>
| parents = Gihei Honda (Father) <br> Mika Honda (Mother)
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==Development of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.==
In 1937, Honda founded Tōkai Seiki to produce piston rings for [[Toyota]]. During World War II, a US [[B-29]] bomber attack destroyed Tōkai Seiki's Yamashita plant in 1944 and the Iwata plant collapsed in the [[1945 Mikawa earthquake]]. After the war, Honda sold the salvageable remains of the company to Toyota for ¥400450,000 and used the proceeds to found the Honda Technical Research Institute in October 1946.<ref name=Alexander2008/><ref name=Falloon2005/> In 1948 he started producing a complete [[motorized bicycle]], the Type A, which was driven by the first mass-produced engine designed by Honda, and was sold until 1951. The [[Honda D-Type|Type D]] in 1949 was a true motorcycle with a pressed-steel frame designed and produced by Honda and with a [[2-stroke]], {{convert|98|cc|abbr=on}} {{convert|3|hp|abbr=on}} engine, and became the very first model in the [[Honda C71, C76, C72, C77 Dream|Dream]] series of motorcycles. The {{ill|Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan|ja|自動車技術会}} lists both the Type A and the Type D models as two of their ''240 Landmarks of Japanese Automotive Technology''.<ref name=TypeA>{{cite web|title=Honda Type A|url=http://www.jsae.or.jp/autotech/data_e/4-7e.html|work=240 Landmarks of Japanese Automotive Technology|publisher=Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc.|access-date=12 August 2013|quote=The Type A was basically a ready-made bicycle on which was mounted the first independently designed mass-produced engine to carry the Honda name.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206225311/http://www.jsae.or.jp/autotech/data_e/4-7e.html|archive-date=6 February 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=TypeD>{{cite web|title=Honda Dream Type D|url=http://www.jsae.or.jp/autotech/data_e/4-8e.html|work=240 Landmarks of Japanese Automotive Technology|publisher=Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc.|access-date=12 August 2013|quote=This was the first model in the Dream series of motorcycles.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515003923/http://www.jsae.or.jp/autotech/data_e/4-8e.html|archive-date=15 May 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
[[File:Soichiro Honda in 1963.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Soichiro Honda in 1963]]
After the war, Honda became reacquainted with his friend [[Takeo Fujisawa]], whom he had known during his days as a supplier of piston rings to [[Nakajima Aircraft Company]]. In 1949, Honda hired Fujisawa, who oversaw the financial side of the company and helped the firm expand. In 1959, Honda Motorcycles opened its first dealership in the United States.<ref name=Sharma/><ref name=Tremayne/> As president of the Honda Motor Company, Soichiro Honda turned the company into a billion-dollar multinational that produced the best-selling motorcycles in the world. Honda's engineering and marketing skills resulted in Honda motorcycles outselling [[Triumph Engineering Co Ltd|Triumph]] and [[Harley-Davidson]] in their respective home markets.
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[[ASME]] established the Soichiro Honda Medal in recognition of Mr. Honda's achievements in 1982; this medal recognizes outstanding achievement or significant engineering contributions in the field of personal transportation. In 1989, he was inducted into the [[Automotive Hall of Fame]] near [[Detroit]].
 
Soichiro Honda died on August 5, 1991, days before the [[1991 Hungarian Grand Prix|Hungarian Grand Prix]], of [[liver failure]]. He was 84. [[Ayrton Senna]], winner of the Grand Prix, dedicated the victory to the late Soichiro Honda. He was posthumously appointed to the senior third rank in the order of precedence and appointed a Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Rising Sun]].<ref name=Sendoff/><ref>{{cite web|last=Hart|first=Marion|title=Soichiro Honda Biography|url=https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/automotive/soichiro-honda|publisher=ASME Intl.|access-date=13 August 2013|date=June 2012|quote=He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1989, taking his place beside Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, Alfred Sloane of General Motors and Karl Benz.}}</ref>
 
==Honours==
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