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Monday, February 9, 2015
Kenji Ekuan
Industrial designer -- via the Times of India. Best known for his cretion of the iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bottle and the bullet train. He started out as a monk, taking the place of his father at the Hiroshima temple after his father died of radiation poisoning in the wake of the atomic bomb attack. He stated that he was originally inspired to design after "hearing the voices" of the decimated and abandoned streetcars, bicycles, and other machinery that littered the Hiroshima area, all wishing that they had been used more before their destruction.
