IWATA, October 31, 2024 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) has developed a new wheelchair electric power unit, the JWG-1, and will begin selling it domestically from January 2025. The Company also ...

IWATA, November 1, 2024 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces that it has commenced considerations for a merger with Yamaha Motor Powered Products Co., Ltd. (YMPC)-a consolidated subsidiary ...

October 28, 2024—On Sunday, October 27, 2024, Round 8 of the All Japan Road Race Championship, the MFJ Grand Prix, was held at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture. Yamaha Factory Racing Team rider Yuki ...

My story got somewhat sidetracked, but around the time that the V4 prototype was completed, I thought we should begin gathering information on the U.S. market, so we hired an American market research ...

In May 1971, I was suddenly summoned by Managing Director Koike. When I arrived at his office he simply said, “You and Ueshima are being recommended for promotion to executive officer. I want both of ...

1The Inspection Tour of Europe and the U.S. I remember it was in September 1959, shortly after establishment of the Yamaha Technological Research Institute. President Kawakami had instructed Research ...

Based on our Corporate Mission to be a Kando* Creating Company, we are working to promote growth strategies and to reinforce our management foundations toward achieving our Long-Term Vision for 2030 ...

Our next task was to increase yearly production to 300,000 units and was assigned to us by President Koike himself. Our product lineup still had no models above 60 hp, and looking at our sales network ...

So with this and similar failures, the Yasukawa Research Lab was disbanded in February 1962 and absorbed into the company’s engine department. Thereafter, the only project on which work continued ...

This was the so-called Pe-33 prototype prop mounted on the Ki-67. This prop was designed at Nippon Gakki’s Tokyo factory under the leadership of Matao Sanuki. Managing Executive Officer Nemoto was ...

Ever since Yamaha’s initial entry into the U.S. outboard market, I had been thinking the next marine product we should develop was a stern drive as it is the logical extension of an outboard. The U.S.

Endurance and durability testing is absolutely key to ensuring engine reliability. Back then we mainly ran our engines on dynamometers for testing, so not only could we not really run them long enough ...