Kenichi Yamamoto, Father of Mazda’s Rotary Engine, Is Dead at 95

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
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