Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Co. at Hamamatsu, near the southern coast of Japan between Tokyo and Nagoya. That was in 1948. For the first fifteen years, Honda was a motorcycle producer, selling its products in Japan and over the world. In 1989, Soichiro Honda became the first Japanese to be honored in Detroit's prestigious 'Automotive Industry Hall of Fame' (Mair, p38). In 1962, the Honda Motor Co., a Japanese motorcycle manufacturer founded fourteen years previously, made its first automobile. Entering the four-wheeler business had been a hurried affair, rushed along because it looked as if the Japanese Ministry of Trade and Industry would try to prevent new firms from joining Japan's small automobile industry. The current President of Honda Motor Company is Mr. Hiroyoko Yoshino.
The planning function means defining an organization's goals, establishing an overall strategy for achieving these goals, and developing a comprehensive hierarchy of plans to integrate and coordinate activities (Robbins, De Cenzo, p9).
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