Honda Aircraft Co.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cemented economic links and cultural amity with North Carolina on Friday, following up time in Washington during his official U.S. visit by checking up on benchmark Japanese companies building in the ninth-most populous state and later planning to speak with students.

Hours before the Japanese prime minister's arrival in North Carolina, a subsidiary of Japan's Fujifilm Corp.

Greensboro-based Honda Aircraft is about to start delivering its first aircraft to customers: a HondaJet.