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| This 'Portable Motorcycle' won the President's Award at the first I-Con held in March 1970, at the Suzuka Circuit. |
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The period of years beginning in 1980, when I-Con began to lose its luster, was also a period in which Honda began the overseas development of full-scale production bases, such as building an automobile factory in the United States. Some of the young people who had gained confidence through I-Con, forming a network of friends with similar interests, were involved in building the new overseas plants. Therefore, lacking the I-Con venue in which to develop and showcase their creativity, they initiated activities with their associates overseas.
I-Con, with its "Let's have fun and build our dreams with your own hands" philosophy, can therefore be said to have contributed much to the company's overseas expansion. What the employees have learned through I-Con was the realization that "it is fun to have a dream, but it is even more fun to change the dream into an idea and build it with your own hands." Another truism remains in the annals of Honda: that "creating things creates people."
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