TOKYO—Kenichi Yamamoto, who led the engineering team that produced a commercially viable rotary engine at the company now known as Mazda Motor Co. and later became its president and chairman, died on Dec. 20. He was 95. MORE
Kenichi Yamamoto, Father of Mazda’s Rotary Engine, Is Dead at 95
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