Jujiro matsuda biography
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Jujiro Matsuda
Japanese industrialist and businessman (1875–1952)
Jujiro Matsuda (松田 重次郎, Matsuda Jūjirō, 8 August 1875 – 27 March 1952) was a Japanese inventor, machinist, industrialist and businessman whose company, Toyo Kogyo, led to the founding of the present-day multinational automaker Mazda Motor Corporation, in 1984.
Jujiro matsuda biography
Early life
The son of a fisherman, Matsuda was born in Hiroshima in 1875. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith in Osaka at the age of 14 and invented the "Matsuda-type pump" in 1906. He later took over management of the foundry at which he apprenticed and changed the name of the organization to "Matsuda Pump Partnership"; he was eventually forced out of the company, but launched an arms manufacturing company soon after: the eponymously-named Matsuda Works.
Matsuda would see his fledgling company's fortunes improve when it was commissioned as a supplier to the Tsar of Russia[1] and as the manufacturer of the Type 99 rifle for the Imperial Jap