In 1954 in Hamamatsu, where his factory was located, he started a class to teach the rudiments of music to young children.

ECONOMIST: Genichi Kawakami

Ensconced on the hillsides of the relatively remote Hamamatsu, Suzuki always worried about keeping current on cutting edge technologies, in a technology-driven business.

FORBES: The VW-Suzuki Split and Japanese Corporate Globalization

The experiment, conducted by a team from the Hamamatsu University of Medicine, found that the larvae of fruit flies hit with this electron rush were able to withstand an electron microscope's hostile vacuum unharmed and even grew to be healthy adults.

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