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Yamaha Motor Corporation (ヤマハ発動機株式会社) is a motorized
vehicle-producing company, initially part of the
Yamaha Corporation. After expanding Yamaha Corporation into the
world's biggest piano maker, Former Yamaha CEO
Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized vehicles in
1955.
Recently split off from Yamaha Corporation in 2001 when
Toyota did a stock swap, taking Yamaha Corporation's 4% stake in
Yamaha Motor in exchange for 4% of Toyota stock transferred to Yamaha
Corporation.
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