Company History - from an old photographic album (No.2)
Soon after Tomizo Kohara, the founder, finished elementary school in 1919 he got his first job with Kohara Ironworks in the City of Kawaguchi. He was able to enter the ironworks as his father made all arrangements. His father thought that his son should acquire some kind of skill since he sensed that the age of metalworking and machine tool making was just around the corner. Tomizo learned a lot through the experience there. He gleaned the expertise from his master and his senior pupils. And in 1935 he managed to start his company, Kohara Haguruma Kosho (gear workshop) at Nishikicho, Kawaguchi. His workshop built in a rented space of Oguma Foundry was very small. It was as small as fifty square meters. He worked very hard there and laid the foundation of the Kohara Gear today.

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Tomizo Kohara in the third grader (the fourth from the left in the second row)	Tomizo (18 years old) with his father Shozo Kohara
Tomizo, twenty years old	Tomizo (the second from the left) with his colleagues at Kohara Ironworks
A wedding photograph (left) Tomizo when he started business in 1935 (right)	Front: Fude and Nobuharu Back row: From the left, Tomizo and three employees

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