Michio Suzuki (1887 to 1982) was a Japanese businessman and inventor who founded the company that became Suzuki Motor Corporation. Born into a family of cotton farmers in Shizuoka prefecture, he served a seven-year carpentry apprenticeship from 1901, then took over his family silkworm farm and turned it into a loom workshop. He founded the Suzuki Loom Manufacturing Company in October 1909 and went on to hold more than 120 patents, including a pedal-driven loom, a two-shuttle loom and a punch-card sarong loom. In the mid-1930s he built a prototype car, and after the Second World War he moved the firm into motorised transport: a 36 cc motor-assisted bicycle in 1952, the renaming of the firm as Suzuki Motor Corporation in 1954, and the Suzulight kei car in 1955. He stepped down as president in 1957.
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Suzuki was born on 18 February 1887
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Suzuki died in Hamamatsu on 27 October 1982.
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known primarily for founding the Suzuki Motor Corporation, as well as several innovations in the design of looms
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