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Narazo Shimazu (1888–1973) founded Shimazu Motor Research that built the NS Motorcycle.
Biography
He was born in Japan in 1888. In 1903, his father bought him a bicycle. In the same year he encountered a motorcycle. He went to Tokyo for races of foreign motorcycles. In 1908, at the age of 20, he established the Shimazu Motor Research Institute where he designed and built the first two-stroke engine in Japan.
He died in 1973.
References
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