Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motor Co. and often called the Thomas Edison of Japan, died Monday of liver failure. He was 84. Mr. Honda, along with Japanese financier Takeo Fujisawa ...

Divisions Acura, Honda Motorcycles, Honda Racing, HondaJet Founded 1948 Founder Soichiro Honda Headquarters ... vehicles that might have engine failure. These vehicles cover a wide variety of ...

Life in F1 was difficult as well, but the never-give-up attitude at last gave Honda a GP win, at Monza no less. It's not surprising; Soichiro had another proverb, "Success is 99 per cent failure." ...

Honda decided his next huge success was going to be piston rings, but his many attempts to fashion a new high performance ring ended in failure. Soichiro came over all moody and obsessive ...

So it may come as surprise to hear that when Soichiro Honda chose a bright and cheery red for the company's prototype S360, there was a problem. Red cars were illegal in Japan. According to ...

Late in life, long after he had retired from his namesake automotive company, Soichiro Honda was still bothered by The Myth. It held that the industrial success of post-World War II Japan was ...

Soichiro Honda, a mechanic who founded a motorcycle engine company that has grown into Japan’s No. 3 car manufacturer, died of liver failure Monday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 84. The Honda ...