Natural disasters have been striking left, right, and center lately, with wildfires scorching Europe and North America, storms battering the American West and Pacific, droughts being suffered throughout the world, and a handful of earthquakes shaking the ground under South America and Japan. The latter of which recently causing Honda to stop motorcycle production at its Kumamoto plant.
The complex, which is located in Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto, Japan, is the brand's largest motorcycle production facility, which produces a literal metric ton of the brand's two wheeled offerings, including the Gold Wing, CRF1000L Africa Twin, CB1100, CBR1000RR, Rebel 500, CBR250RR, Giorno and Tact scooters, as well as the Super Cub series. Basically, half of Honda's offerings come out of Kumamoto at present. But that hasn't been the case since July when a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the region, killing 39 people in the area and causing the production facility to shut down.
