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The path Tomizo Kohara followed
- devotion to gear-making
15. Specializing in Gear Making |
A large-sized gear and Tomizo
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While Tomizo was getting over the postwar period, his employees sent to the front returned home one by one. He gathered them to restart his company. And at length he established his company, Kohara Gear Industry Co., Ltd. in April 1949. Time was ready now for him to produce what he wanted to make - stock gears.
His renewed enthusiasm was that Kohara Gear would expand the market for stock gears
on a large scale, beyond Tokyo area to all over the country. In order to materialize that,
it was clear that he had to go through a process to modernize production facilities, to reduce cost and to improve quality.
Takumi Inada, a former director of Kohara Gear said:
"Tomizo-san told me about his plan to sell stock gears on a large scale and asked me to do the job together. I entered the company and visited, together with Kaneo-san, machine-parts suppliers in Tokyo every day as a canvasser." "In 1951," he continued, "I went through the formalities of obtaining money on loan from Aid-Japan Funds. The amount was 800,000 yen and it was meant for improving production facilities. It had taken almost a year before we received the money."
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