Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki is Japan’s 4th largest automobile manufacturer after Toyota, Nissan and Honda, the 9th largest automobile manufacturer in the world by production volume. It employs over 45,000, has 35 main production facilities in 23 countries and 133 distributors in 192 countries. By 1954, Suzuki was producing 6,000 motorcycles per month and had officially changed its name to Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd.