Founder Profile
Jujiro Matsuda
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Jujiro Matsuda?
Jujiro Matsuda is a founder of Mazda Motor Corporation, which was founded in 1920 with Kenichi Yamamoto.
- Company founded
- Mazda Motor Corporation
- Founded
- 1920
- Co-founders
- Kenichi Yamamoto
Background
Japanese industrialist and blacksmith.
Founding Story
Jujiro Matsuda founded the company (originally Toyo Cork Kogyo) in 1920 in Hiroshima. He rescued a failing artificial cork manufacturing business and aggressively pivoted it into machine tools and eventually three-wheeled autorickshaws (the Mazda-Go). He famously survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and immediately ordered the company to begin rebuilding the city using its remaining factories.
Jujiro Matsuda was born in 1875.
Matsuda was born on August 6, 1875 and died on March 27, 1952. He was an inventor and machinist as well as an industrialist.