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Life is like a spinning gear, so they say.
Like meshing of gears, people come in contact with each other from different motives and in various circumstances.
The meshing creates an instant bond and then evolves into energy, and energy often transforms into concord.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The never-ending rotation of the earth on its axis may be expressed as the meshing of earth with the cosmos. By the same token each nation and the globe, each individual person and society. People make their own history spinning around like gears. . .Like gears - a small one, a medium one, a large one, a spur gear, a bevel gear, a spiral gear, a worm gear, and so on.
Tomizo Kohara, the founder of Kohara Gear Industry Co., Ltd., passed away in peace on July 26, 1966 at the age of 59.
In his later years he successively filled various important posts. He held twenty two such posts; The chief director of Kawaguchi Industrial Machinery Association, the director of Japan Gear Manufacturers Association, the vice-president of Kawaguchi Chamber of Commerce and Industry to name but a few.
Of 59 years of his life, he lived 46 years in the town of Kawaguchi. And he spent 32 years in the business world. He contributed to the advances in the gear manufacturing in Japan engaging himself in research and development of gears.
Tomizo was born as the first son of Shozo and Haru on October 4, 1906 at Shitaya-Kanasugi in Tokyo.
Tomizo's father Shozo ran a mochi (rice cake) sweets store at Shitaya-kanasugi. Shozo started the store with help from his wife Haru's rich farmer parents at Nishidai village, Itabashi (a suburb of Tokyo).
"A gem of a boy!". Hearing the news that his son was born Shozo was really excited.
Becoming a father, and a sense of responsibility as father made him an eager beaver. His store was much talked about as a store serving delicious mochi sweets. Naturally things went well, the number of employees increased, and he was very busy.
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