Mr. Asai, a teacher and expert on thread, who also participated in the exhibition in New York, was featured in the Asahi Shimbun morning edition.
It all started with an email from Suzuki-san, who works as an interpreter for me in New York.
I received a message saying, "Mr. Omura, a reporter at the Asahi Shimbun, is interested in you."

We immediately got to talking and then visited Mr. Asai in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture together.

Asai is also a researcher of "garabo", a Japanese thread that was invented during the Meiji period, and has even designed his own gara spinning machine.
We heard some very interesting stories, such as how it was developed by the Meiji inventor Gaun Tatsuchi, and how after the war, in an era before spinning machines, it was reevaluated for a time because it could be made from wood, and the content of the story was published on the 7th.



I am grateful for this article about the history of Japanese manufacturing, which is gradually being forgotten!
I hope that Mr. Asai will continue to stay in good health and pass on to our generation the things that should be preserved for the new Japan.
thank you very much!

Bonus... A commemorative photo of everyone who came from Tokyo (on the mountain behind the Toyoda Sakichi Memorial Museum).
Designer Kaneko-san, and article writers Omura, Nishimura, and Asai-san


(Person in charge: Nishimura)