Ted Kimura, former president of Yamaha Motor...

Ted Kimura, former president of Yamaha Motor Corp. U.S.A. from 1981 to 1983, will return to his post, succeeding Ben Watanabe, who has been president since 1983. Watanabe is returning to Yamaha Motor’s world headquarters in Japan, where he will oversee the worldwide engineering, manufacturing and marketing of all Yamaha motorcycles. Before returning to Yamaha’s U.S. headquarters in Cypress, Kimura was president of Yamaha Motor N.V., European headquarters for Yamaha in the Netherlands.