Narazo Shimazu
Japanese motorcycle builder (1888–1973)
Narazo Shimazu (1888–1973) founded Shimazu Motor Research Institute, that built the NS Motorcycle.
Biography
Shimazu was born in Japan in 1888. In 1903, his father bought him a bicycle. In the same year he encountered a motorcycle. He went to Tokyo for races of foreign motorcycles. In 1908, at the age of 20, he established the Shimazu Motor Research Institute, where he designed and built the first two-stroke engine in Japan.[1][2]