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- DIED. Soichiro Honda, 84, pioneering Japanese manufacturer who
- built his motorcycle company into a global automotive giant; in
- Tokyo. A hands-on mechanic as well as a visionary, Honda scored
- his first success in postwar Japan by selling bicycles powered
- by military-surplus engines. By the early 1960s his firm was the
- world's largest motorcycle maker. Defying Japanese government
- bureaucrats who tried to limit the nation's auto industry to a
- few dominant firms, Honda began making cars in 1963. In 1982
- Honda became the first Japanese automaker to build cars in the
- U.S.
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