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Showcasing Tokyo's Technical Treasures: Business Matching Innovator - Furukawa Taku (2020x8)

: 12, 2020

Small scale, specialist technical workshops, or "Machikoba," have long been a lynchpin of Japanese manufacturing. But without the ability to effectively communicate their supreme skills, overseas competition and a lack of successors have seen the sector shrink in recent decades. Entrepreneur Furukawa Taku is aiming to change all that, working with a network of over 100 workshops in downtown Tokyo to refresh their old-fashioned business models and promote creative cross-sector collaborations.