The Story Behind the “Made in Japan” World-class Manufacturing Quality of the／YAOYA PROJECT

An interview with the participants of the YAOYA PROJECT, a project whose purpose is to spread the manufacturing of Yao city across the world. Before the exhibition event in Taiwan, we were able to talk with representative director of OTSU Co.,LTD., Mr. Hirotaka Kajihara, who participated as a business operator, as well as Mr. Takaomi Okajima of the planning and development department, and Mr. Kunikazu Hamanishi of Hamanishi DESIGN, selected unanimously by the judges. We will deliver the story behind this world-class "Made in Japan" manufacturing quality.

The Yaoya Project: Japanese manufacturers use Taiwan as a launchpad for new ideas

Eight traditional Japanese manufacturing companies are taken to Taipei, Taiwan to develop new product ideas for the local market in this collaboration between Osaka’s Yao city and Loftwork, as a way to step out the comfort zone and ‘break the bias’.