Honda Motor Appoints Tsutsumu Otani As Its New President, CEO And MD

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Honda Motor Company Limited on 5 April 2023 appointed Tsutsumu Otani as the new President, CEO and Managing Director of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India.

An Overview of the News

• Otani was serving as vice president of Honda Motor in Japan and took over from Atsushi Ogata.

• Otani began his career with Honda Japan in 1997 and has held several leadership positions within the company.

About Honda Motor Company Limited

• It is a multinational conglomerate manufacturer based in Japan and this company manufactures automobiles, motorcycles and power equipment.

• In addition to producing vehicles and power equipment, Honda is also involved in a number of other industries, including aerospace and robotics.

• As of 2021, Honda is one of the most valuable automobile brands in the world, with a brand value of over $25 billion.

Founded - 24 September 1948, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Founders - Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa

Headquarters - Minato, Tokyo, Japan

About Japan

• It is also called Nihon or Nippon and is an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean in East Asia.

• It is an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean in East Asia.

• It is made up of four main islands Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu and Honshu is the largest island of Japan.

• Its highest mountain is Mount Fuji.

• It is the third largest economy in the world after the United States and China.

Capital - Tokyo

currency - Yen

Prime Minister - Fumio Kishida