C O R P O R A T E P R O F I L E
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| Company Name |
Curiosity Japan KK (Kabushiki Kaisha) |
| Head Office |
1-10-6 Ishihara Sumida-ku Tokyo 130-0011 JAPAN |
| CEO |
Kaz Kobayashi |
| Capital |
JPY10,000,000 |
| Established |
July 1st, 1971 |
| Field of Business |
Producing various contents & original products
Artist & creator management
International Business development
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| B I O G R A P H Y ／ K A Z K O B A Y A S H I |
Kaz Kobayashi is a bilingual Tokyoite creative organizer with experiences in directing various projects, developing original brand businesses, and managing both marketing and creative divisions.
Kaz a native of Tokyo left Japan to study filmmaking in the US when he was 18 years old. He spent intensive 4 years in California, learned American culture as well as movie production, and acquired proficiency in English language. He produced a 40-min 16mm film as a thesis project and graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz majoring in Theatre Arts, Film Emphasis.
After graduation, Kaz returns to Japan and starts his career in video production industry as an assistant to an American video artist. His role was to translate and interpret in addition to assistant direct music videos. He then moves to a Japanese video production house and gets involved with a variety of projects. 7 years’ experience in this firm promoted Kaz from an assistant director to a producer, and cultivated his versatile project management skills.
Kaz widens his sphere of activities when he took a position of planner/producer of a Tokyo-based design, printing, and package-manufacturing company. His career was no longer limited within video production industry. The firm assigned Kaz to develop original brand businesses with the resources that they possessed. Royalty-free clipart and photography, board game, stereoscopic printing technology was amongst several projects that he was involved with. He was later appointed as General Manager of Business Development Department, in charge of all aspects of marketing and creative activities regarding original brand business of the firm.
Kaz is currently CEO of Curiosity Japan KK, and is exploring new international ventures mainly in entertainment, amusement, design, printing, digital signage, toy, and art industries.
Kaz is a native speaker of Japanese with fluency in English (TOEIC 975).
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