Kohei Akimoto

Kohei Akimoto is senior managing director at Aoyoshi, a metalworking company founded in 1957. He devoted himself entirely to developing cutlery suited to people with disabilities as well as to older users. Shape and weight play a crucial role here, and in collaboration with Mitsubishi the company was even able to adapt metal completely to the form the user required (shape memory polymer). Aoyoshi is one of the companies based in the area around the cities of Tsubame and Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture.