At the end of World War Two in Japan, Sochiro Honda was looking for
something to do.He started rounding up some little utility gas engines
and mounting them onto bicycles.That is how Honda two wheelers, mopeds
and motorcycles, and later, on cars, got started.

The Official end of World War Two, as far as U.S.fed govt is concerned,
wasen't untill 1951.
cuhulin