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Nine Japanese Legends Who Didn't Just Build an Industry — They Rewired It.

These aren’t showroom stories. These are the men who turned nuts and bolts into national icons. No fluff — just facts and forged steel.
They didn’t build cars.
They redefined what cars could be.

1. Soichiro Honda (Honda)
A mechanic with fire in his gut and fuel in his veins. Started with motorcycles, ended up on F1 tracks. He didn’t play business — he outran it.

2. Kiichiro Toyoda (Toyota)
The son of a loom master who decided to weave an entire industry instead. Mass production. Precision. Discipline. Like a samurai of the assembly line.

3. Yoshisuke Aikawa (Nissan)
The man behind Nihon Sangyo — the “Ni-San” in Nissan. He merged tech with instinct. If he had more time, he’d have built rockets.

4. Jujiro Matsuda (Mazda)
The rebel who built an engine that didn’t act like one. The rotary — his masterpiece. Survived war, and came out swinging. Stylishly.

5. Chikuhei Nakajima (Subaru)
Started with aircrafts, grounded by war — but then came Subaru. Rockets didn’t fly, so they rolled.

6. Michio Suzuki (Suzuki)
From weaving looms to weaving through traffic. Built motorcycles that threaded asphalt and tiny cars that fit in your pocket. Mobility was his faith.

7. Yataro Iwasaki (Mitsubishi)
His ships sailed while others rowed. Founded an empire — banks, mines, transport. Mitsubishi isn’t a brand. It’s Japan’s industrial Venice.

8. Torakusu Yamaha (Yamaha)
A clockmaker who taught mechanics to sing. From organs to engines — everything he touched turned into music and motion.

9. Shozo Kawasaki (Kawasaki)
Launched steamships before it was cool. Built planes, trains, and roaring motorcycles. One of the fathers of Japanese industrialization.
Without him, Japan might still be boiling water over open fire.

When the Japanese commit — they don’t create companies.
They forge dynasties of steel and soul.

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Thank you Japanese engineers.

If not for una, wetin civil servants and common man for dey drive in this economy?

These are the legends that God used to make life much more easy..

These are Men of steel.

No pun intended.

... These are men who not only use their resources but also ed by their government... Not like here when the director of a technological and engineering agency was defending her spent budget saying they spent billions of naira into creating a power bank,, The Senate committee were shocked on hearing it..

Respect Japanese oh, those people are good when it come to technology

hmmm Japanese made many CIVIL SERVENT a CAR OWNER (teknologia) today, so they owe them[/b] gratitude.
for PERSON like me: THANKS to GERMANS

they OPNENED our EYES to REAL MACHINES, LUXURY and PERFORMING MACHINES.

decatalyst:
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INNOSON is the SON of the SOIL

donproject2:
Where is my name?

#
bro na u INVENT that CARTON BOX Cars with plastic cover tyres?
these are the NAMES of INVENTORs, not names of 2ND HAND S PURCHASERS (TOKS STANDARD)

Anguldi:


Very unreliable piece of automobiles (German cars)

book for BMW TEST DRIVE today, and a change of LIFE and the TEST becomes TESTIMONIES

You no mention Junichi Inamoto

Men of honour

Did they do it all by themselves or they got massive financial from their govt?
Here we expect an innovator to do it all. Get funds. Get power. Get machines.

Where is my name?

decatalyst:
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Now we enjoy the cars in Nigeria

This is the kinda nuz I love to read.

Km tired of news about Tinubu and his kriminal gangsters in Aso rock. God bless Japan

5. Chikuhei Nakajima (Subaru)
Started with aircrafts, grounded by war — but then came Subaru. Rockets didn’t fly, so they rolled.

Igbo guy sold during slave trade

They are for the good things

Great men

our own copy oyibo say na innoson

nwala automotive corporation sound better

Men of Steel and Iron

badaru911:
... These are men who not only use their resources but also ed by their government... Not like here when the director of a technological and engineering agency was defending her spent budget saying they spent billions of naira into creating a power bank,, The Senate committee were shocked on hearing it..

Chaiii. They will need billions of trillions to build a washing machine or grinder then.

The world would be a much bleaker, poorer place without these men - and those who worked with them.

Nippon!!

decatalyst:
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Nigerian engineers own no to dey speak grammar and servicing of mechanical parts, changing oil etc

Japanese and broadly Asians are crazily intelligent.

I wonder who cursed the black race.

We beg for loans
We purchase consumables
We show off with fashion, music and dance

Lol.

You intentionally removed the women who played the major role.

There would be no Ford Cars today if not for Ford's wife.

Please fact check me

Wealthoptulent:
[hmmm Japanese made many CIVIL SERVENT a CAR OWNER (teknologia) today, so they owe them[/b] gratitude.
for PERSON like me: THANKS to GERMANS

they OPNENED our EYES to REAL MACHINES, LUXURY and PERFORMING MACHINES.


INNOSON is the SON of the SOIL

Very unreliable piece of automobiles (German cars)

Great Ones

When will black race replicate such 😩

I thought Mitsubishi came from the famous Mitsui Empire from Japan..

CodeTemplarr:
Did they do it all by themselves or they got massive financial from their govt?
Here we expect an innovator to do it all. Get funds. Get power. Get machines.

Did Dangote and Glo receive financial from government. We blame government for everything in Nigeria.