About

Representative Director
Kei Hirabayashi

Representative Director, Japan Fashion Association for the Disabled

Representative Director, Totto Link Co.

Visiting Professor, Shijonawate-gakuen University

After working as a beautician, she joined Sanko Gakuen Educational Corporation in 2004 and started teaching. He then started his own business in December 2016, establishing Totto Link Co. Currently manages four after-school daycare services in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture. established the Japan Fashion Association for Persons with Disabilities in November 2019 and assumed the position of Representative Director. in September 2022, wheelchair during the Paris Collection Week with NextUD brand bottom’all. In February 2024, he established the Japan Welfare and Medical Fashion Association and became its representative director. Currently, she is working for the Diaper Collection to be held at Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai.

Vice President
Taishi Yagi

Diaper Delivery Service Representative / Physical Therapist

Diaper Information Bureau Manager

Chairperson of Asahi-ku Restroom Beautification Committee

After gaining 4 years of experience as a physical therapist, he changed jobs to another industry. He worked in the diaper benefit business for about 2 years at his new company, and opened his own diaper delivery business in Osaka in 2016.

Vice President
Raita Yano

Chief of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hiroshima Memorial Hospital

Board Certified Surgeon (Japan Surgical Society)

Specialist in Colorectal Disease
(Japanese Society of Colorectal Disease)

Commentator of the Society of Colorectal Disease (®︎)

Board-certified antimicrobial chemotherapist
(Japanese Society for Chemotherapy)

Certified stoma specialist
(Japanese Society for Stoma and Excretion Rehabilitation)

Diaper Meister (Kao Professional Services)

Graduated from Hiroshima University School of Medicine in 2004. After training as a surgeon, focusing on gastrointestinal diseases, he joined the Department of Surgery at Hiroshima Memorial Hospital in 2019.In 2020, he established the “Outpatient Defecation Function Clinic” at Hiroshima Memorial Hospital. In order to provide not only surgical treatment for colorectal diseases but also medical care to improve the quality of life, he focuses on the treatment of defecation disorders such as constipation, fecal incontinence, postoperative defecation disorders, and colostomy care.

Vice President
Ken Kuwabata

President, Japan Medical Design Center, Inc.

Medical Designer and Social Good Producer.

Born in Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture. Graduated from the University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Art and Design, and completed a master’s degree in information design at Tama Art University. In 2008, he founded Jump Start Inc. (now Medical Design Workshop Inc.) and became its representative director. As a creative director, he is involved in a wide range of planning and design. After relocating his office to Kamakura, he launched Kamakon Valley (now Kamakon) and participated in community revitalization projects in Kamakura as a designer. He was a talk show personality on Shonan Beach FM for two years, established Japan Medical Design Center as a general incorporated association in 2018 and became its president, and published “Iidehon – An Introductory Practical Book of Medical Design” in December 2023. He is currently developing more than 30 projects of creative work under the theme of “Medical Design” at any given time.

Redefining the Value of Diapers

We Challenge the World at Expo Osaka/Kansai

Redefining the Value of Diapers

We Challenge the World
at Expo Osaka/Kansai

Formal name

Japan Welfare&Medical Fashion Associatio

Director

Representative Director  KeiHirabayashi

Vice president  Taishi Yagi

Vice president  Raita Yano

Vice president  Ken Kuwabata

Secretariat  Ei Ishii

Project Collaborative Members

Ryuichi Tanaka  Yume Kana Planning Co.Representative Director

Michiyo Takeshita Home-Visit Nursing Station KOKONA

Takuya Naganawa  Representative Director, Mutu Corporation

Yoshimasa Kimura  Agri Heart LLC Representative Partner

Ryuichi Tanaka
Yume Kana Planning Co.Representative Director

Michiyo Takeshita
Home-Visit Nursing Station KOKONA

Takuya Naganawa
Representative Director, Mutu Corporation

Yoshimasa Kimura
Agri Heart LLC Representative Partner