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Aug 31, 2023 · In the hours after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Benjamin Kopf ran to the Ford factory in Yokohama. He was on a mission, Mathews recounts, to “destroy some documents and to collect essential financial records to take to the US consulate for safekeeping.”
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Nov 18, 2022 · For 15 years, Ford boomed in Japan. Its cars became so popular that the royal family visited the Yokohama plant. Benjamin Kopf Sr. was on top of his game, the darling of Ford Motor Company and a respected, influential businessman. Then came December 7, 1941.
To head up the new operation in Japan, Roberge selected Benjamin Kopf, who was in the process of relocating from South America to Mexico, where he was to have have managed Ford's operations. Kopf, an Argentine of German extraction, started working for Ford in Buenos Aires before moving on to Montevideo, and then
Kopf, former head of Ford’s operations in prewar Japan, states ‘Isuzu, which built army trucks, had a royalty agreement with British Leyland, while another Japanese firm had an arrangement with the British Wolseley, related
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- 2002
Sep 1, 2023 · Once upon a time, Ford was the top-selling automobile in Japan. In fact, from 1925 to 1936, as scholar J. Scott Mathews writes on the JSTOR, Henry Ford’s Model T “dominated” automobile sales in Japan,” with Chevrolet a very close second. When Ford officially opened their plant in Yokohama’s Tsurumi…
Apr 29, 2022 · “In the early 1900s, our grandfather—a self-taught orphan, German, living in Argentina—was hired by Ford Motor Company as an employee. In a few short years, he rose to become the head of Ford Motor Company of Japan,” Ben Kopf told the crowd.
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