The Japanese manufacturers are having a horrible time in MotoGP, perhaps their toughest since they evolved from manufacturing weaponry for the Japanese military in World War Two
Japan's Big Four motorcycle manufacturers – Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha – ruled bike racing from the 1960s until very recently. More than half a century of racetrack supremacy, along with (and funded by) total domination of the global road-bike market, all the way from step-thru scooters to superbikes.
After World War Two there were as many as two hundred motorcycle manufacturers in Japan, but by the early 1970s the vast majority had gone bust, while others were absorbed. Only Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha remained.
Why and how did that massive purge take place to create Japan's so-called Big Four?
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