[Passing the baton] Ever since I was a kid, my favorite pastime was making things. It's a happy thing when a hobby can become a job, but I think it's surprisingly difficult to continue doing it without hating it. Because it becomes a job to earn a living. Is it not enough to just eat and sleep? Is it necessary for life to have meaning or significance, goals or objectives? It's not bad and I don't think it's necessary. The only question is whether it's easy. If it's just painful, just stop. I think we need goals and objectives to ease the pain. With the exception of a very small number of true geniuses, what is commonly referred to as a talented person is someone who is good at creating things and finding a way beyond suffering. Everything I have now. Food, clothing, shelter, the material things necessary for life, our living bodies, and our human spirits are all things that we are connected to by someone else. There is nothing I have achieved on my own. We are alive in the environment we are given, with bodies and minds that have been connected to us. We are still living in a big flow, unable to resist, but is it a wicked human thought to wish to connect with matter and spirits other than life? Is the desire to leave proof that one lived, to make one's mark, just a petty ego unique to humans? It is an animal instinct to survive and sustain life. It is also an animal instinct to seek a better environment. Instinct has no evil intentions or ego. I sincerely hope to rejoice in the environment I have gained and share it with my colleagues, passing it on to the next generation. We want to do what we can for society. [We create the best furniture, bring the best joy, and make it the coolest.] Through furniture making, we hope to help our colleagues, customers, future generations, and ourselves. We want to be a company like a great rock band, continuing to take on challenges that excite everyone and creating furniture that resonates with the heart like music. This is KOMA's corporate philosophy. I've loved making things since I was a kid. I didn't play any games, but I think I did all kinds of crafts, such as clay, origami, LEGO, sculptures, plastic models, radio-controlled cars, etc. There was freedom of creation and joy. That's how I became an adult. That's why I want to be excited about making things for the rest of my life. Not a subcontractor with no creative freedom. It's not about being poor and struggling to make it in a niche market as a craft. It's not self-satisfaction that I can somehow make a living by making things I love. I want to show social results. Even though we are a small manufacturing company, we want to compete with the products of major manufacturers in major markets. I want to firmly establish a genre in the general market that is not an industrial product, but one that represents genuine craftsmanship. And I would be happy if more people could experience it and be pleased with it. While I am resigned to my fate, I want to continue to be a challenger who always makes my own choices, and I want to lead the way as a pioneer. Things aren't going as planned and I feel like quitting every day, There is something instinctively joyful in the midst of all that pain and joy. Now, there is something we can create by putting in as much effort as we can. I would be happy if we could take the baton that our predecessors have passed on to us in our own way and pass it on to the next generation. Since I was child, my favorite hobby have been making something. I should be happy to make my favorite thing as my profession, however, it would not be easy to continue it without getting to hate it. Because I may need to make it as work for my bread. Would it be good enough just to eat and sleep? Do we need meaning, significance, goal, or purpose of life? Our life may be justified without them and may not need them. The question would be whether it is fun or not. We would be better to stop if it brings only pains. Goals and purpose would be required in order to make pains to fun. Those who talented but not genius would be creative enough to find what exist beyond pains. All we have now. Matters required for our lives in terms of wearing, eating, and living, bodies as lives, minds as human-beings, have been succeeded from someone. Nothing is acquired by ourselves. Under given conditions, we live based on succeeded bodies and minds. Given no big difference from just living without any ideas of doing so, would it be evil ideas to live with desiring to succeed substances and minds? Would it be egoism to make efforts to leave evidences of our lives or leave our marks? It would be instinct of animals to succeed lives. It would be also instinct of animals to act seeking better environments. Instincts would have nothing to do with evil or egoism. I purely hope sharing and having funs of environments acquired with comrades and succeeding to next generations. I would like to do what we can do to society. [Creating the best furniture, bringing clients the most pleasure, and being the most cool] To be the company like rock band creating furnitures touching heart like music , through manufacturing of furnitures, keeping continuous challenges making comrades, clients, juniors in the future, and ourselves happy. It is the corporate identity of KOMA. I have been feeling fun in creating something since I was child. I had never played games but spent time playing in all kinds of crafts including clay, making paper cranes, LEGO, sculptures, plastic models, radio-controlled cars. I felt free creations and joys. It would not be sustaining the manufacturing in niche market as crafts. It would not be something like self-satisfying company to just sustain our lives at minimum level. I would like to achieve results widely recognized by the society. I would like to compete with products made by larger companies in major market. I would like to firmly establish genre of furniture which is not industrial products but products associated with genuine craftsmanship. And, I would like to make more and more clients happy. Despite leaving my life to destiny, I would like to continue to be a challenger and lead the genre as the pioneer. Many things cannot go as planned, thus, I would like to quit it every day, however, I would be able to find something I feel instinct funs in daily joys and sorrows. There exit something we are able to accumulate what we can do best. I would like to succeed the baton passed by predecessors in our own format to the next generations.
