Hong Kong (CNN Business)In 1979, 22-year-old Neil Vining spotted a job advertisement that took him by surprise. Japanese automaker Honda was hiring American workers for its first plant on US soil. `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. Back then, Marysville was a quaint, rural town with about 7,000 people. There was one high school, a few mom-and-pop stores and a single drive-through restaurant. It was a world away from the gritty, industrial US motor heartland of Detroit. Photos: How Japan met America in rural Ohio Neil Vining, left, was one of 64 original hires made when Honda set up its first,...
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