Honda: American Workers and Plant

honda: It was a bit of shock that Honda decided to come to Ohio, says Vining, now a chief engineer at Honda's Marysville auto plant, according to CNN. Back then, Marysville was a quaint, rural town with about 7,000 people. Japanese automaker Honda was hiring American workers for its first plant on US soil. There was one high school, a few mom-and-pop stores and a single drive-through restaurant. Photos How Japan met America in rural Ohio Neil Vining, left, was one of 64 original hires made when Honda set up its first, ground-breaking plant on US soil in 1979. It was a world away from the gritty, industrial US motor heartland of Detroit. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.