"I dreamed of becoming an inventor from the time I was in elementary school. I had great respect for Edison. He made lights where there were no lights; recording became possible where there wasn't any way to record. Nobody was asking for those things, but Edison wanted them and invented them."
Like Edison, Kashio didn't improve what was already there, but created entirely new things that didn't previously exist, going "from 0 to 1." This is Kashio's philosophy of invention.
(Photo: A view of the factory at the time the company was established)