Sun Rise In Life -Soichiro Honda - Honda

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visited Japan during last week of August and first week of September 2014, the country of Honda which is producing largest nos. of bike all over the World. Soichiro Honda, the founder of Honda Company, was born on November 17, 1906 in Japan, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. His mother, Mika, was a weaver. And his father, Gihei, was a blacksmith, who ran a bicycle repair business. The bicycle transport became extremely popular in big cities those years. His father was buying broken bikes for a knockdown price in Tokyo, repairing and selling them. Soichiro was helping his father literally from the cradle and the bicycle parts were his favourite toys. Soichiro Honda owner of Honda company had Night time after his birth in a normal family for a long period.


In 1922, after finishing eight years of schooling, Soichiro noticed a job ad in a newspaper: an assistant wanted to Art Shokai auto repair shop in Tokyo. After that he went straight to the capital of Japan. He was accepted, but as the youngest employee, there was left only cleaning and preparing meals job for him. Despite this the owner of the auto repair shop allowed Soichiro to help in the second workshop, where he was designing a racing car every Night. Honda was assigned as assistance at Art Shokai; he helped the workshop’s proprietors, the Sakakibara brothers, in designing a Curtiss race car. Soichiro was a riding mechanic at races and their team took the first place at the fifth Japan Motor Car Championship on November 23, 1924


Soichiro thought to create durable spare parts for vehicles. He tried to replace the wooden spokes to metal on the wheels. He developed and got patented for his invention. He didn’t stop here, it was just beginning. In excitement of granted patent he tried to produce piston rings, investing almost all his savings in the research laboratory. But none of the directors of Art Shokai supported him (Night continues).


Soichiro took part in the Japanese high-speed rally in Tama River in the suburbs of Tokyo in 1936. His car raced at breakneck speed – 120 kilometres per hour. Honda crashed into a suddenly stopped car at the finish. The car turned over thrice in the air, and the champion was thrown out of car. The car was lost forever. Honda’s left arm fractured, his shoulder dislocated and his face damaged. Say he almost died. He spent three months in a hospital. The road to the sport was closed forever for him. Night was not over, it was little more darken at this moment but hold your mind, yet to know about his Night session of his life.


When he was in hospital for treatment of such a deadly accident, Soichiro received one more bad news. Out of 30,000 piston rings mind well thirty thousands, which he produced in the recent years and sent for examination to the Toyota Company, only 50 were accepted for consideration and only three pieces passed quality control tests. In addition, Honda was dropped out of the college because he refused to take the examination.


Think anyone can broke down with such a continues back strokes from life, day after day and one by one negative results after hard working with a hope and dream. He made 30000 piston rings what a patience and passion but29950 piston rings rejected for consideration. Just three rings passed quality control tests. More to note he had handed over the jewels of his wife to the pawn shop and literally lived in the workshop to develop these piston rings. Darkness of Night was getting more darken.
What we will do at this stage?  Perhaps, we will compromise with destiny as many people do. But Soichiro opened his own business after recovery from accident in Hamamatsu, year was 1937. He founded the company “TOKAI SEIKI”; started producing the piston rings with technology of production of piston rings found finally after continues efforts. Things went uphill like a candle in darkness but for a short period.


With the defeat of Japan in World War II “Tokay Seiko” came to an end. In 1945, Hamamatsu was undergone a massive bombardment by America. Honda decided not to restore the factory, but sold the business to ‘Toyota’. 10,000 Yen the businessman spent on the purchase of alcohol tank. By installing it in his yard, he said publicly, he was going to rest for a year. Soichiro spent a year in drunken revels, treating friends with homemade whiskey. Total black out in Night of one year. Is this was acceptance of failure in life as darkness? No, not at all. He waited for his Sun to come out when everything was going wrong and wrong and wrong. He just took rest but he was not slipping in drunken and unconscious as many people do to forget everything. He was awaken and gathering his energy as well as knowledge; he sharpened his mind during this one year and came back like a warrior.

In 1946 he got sure

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Soichiro opened his own ‘factory’ with a grandiloquent name – ‘Honda Technology Research Institute’ and became engaged in artisanal production of mopeds. He fitted a generator engine of a tiny army radio to a bicycle, used rubber hot water bottle as a fuel tank and filled it with fir oil. There was plenty of fir oil in the countryside of Japan in those times. Honda sold 1,500 of these mopeds, nicknamed ‘choo-choo’ for their sound. Then Honda replaced the engine by a two-stroke engine of his own design. It was the first original Honda A-Type product moped of indefatigable businessman which was developed in 1947. And after two years the ‘Institute’ became the Honda Motor Company.
Soichiro Honda died on August 5, 1991, 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.


 AND TILL TODAY HONDA IS IN BEST POSITION.