Nissan out board.

[Thomas Perkins]

Check this out.Only 500 bucks.

[pidge]

Had one back in the day. A 5hp with built in tank. Great for those back lakes on a smaller boat. Thing was light enough to manage by myself. 
-Pidge

[john510]

It's a Tohatsu with a Nissan badge on it.

[pidge]

Somewhere in my memory bank I believe Tohatsu built the mercury’s up to 9.9hp past and or present. 

[john510]

3 hours ago, pidge said:

Somewhere in my memory bank I believe Tohatsu built the mercury’s up to 9.9hp past and or present. 

They also did Mercury in higher HP ratings .

[bottomwatcher]

Lots of badge swapping in the small outboard world. I have a 2002 tohatsu 8hp and run the piss out of it on an inflatable dingy. It's been good. The only wildcard is jap outboards are hit and miss with corrosion issues in saltwater. Sometimes they run great until the the block corrodes between cylinders and then there is no saving it. I have a 3.3 jap mercury that has massive hours on it and it even fell off the transom of my floating dock running. I fished it out of the canal, flushed it and put in fresh fuel. Runs like a top several years later. Japanese make excellent outboards.

[angliagt]

   A friend of mine had a Tohatsu 50 motorcycle - sort of like a Honda 90.

[john510]

I've read that Tohatsu is the largest outboard manufacturer in the world.