Bridgestone's name is founder Ishibashi's surname flipped into English

The name Bridgestone is a reversed and translated version of the Japanese surname of its founder, Shōjiro Ishibashi. "Ishi" means "stone" and "hashi" means "bridge" in Japanese, so flipping the order and translating gives "Bridgestone." The result sounds like an American brand — on a par with Goodyear — but is entirely Japanese in origin.