Vol.1“BOUNCING BACK” from Soichiro Honda Origins - The Manga

Soichiro Honda opened the Honda Technical Research Institute, the predecessor of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in Hamamatsu city in October of 1946. He tried to develop a rotary weaver to take advantage of the textile boom, but ran out of funds. One day, when he was thinking of some way to use generator engines for wireless radios, he hit upon a good idea.