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Suzuki Motor
Corporation (スズキ株式会社) is a
Japanese
manufacturing company producing a range of small
automobiles (especially
Keicars), a full range of
motorcycles,
outboard motors, and a variety of other small combustion-powered
engine products.
The company started out as Suzuki
Loom Works (鈴木式織機製作所) in 1909. It later spun off its loom
manufacturing division and renamed the core
business to Suzuki Motor
Corporation.
Notice the company name was written as "Suzuki (鈴木)" as a Japanese name
in
Kanji initially, but after it became an international company, "Suzuki
(スズキ)" was spelled as a foreign word in
katakana. It is a common trend of Japanese companies, e.g. SONY, HONDA
etc. to no longer use the original Japanese writing in their corporate
identity.
See Also
Suzuki (鈴木) is the second
most popular family names in
Japan.
Notable Suzukis are:
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Suzuki Ichiro, baseball player
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Suzuki Kantaro, prime minister
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Suzuki Kozo, author
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Suzuki Shiroyasu, author
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Suzuki Shunryu, Zen master
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Suzuki Yu, game producer
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Suzuki Zenko, prime minister
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