'Kobayashi Naojiro Exhibition'

Feb 21, 2013

'Kobayashi Naojiro Exhibition'

by Tomohiro Osaki

When Naojiro Kobayashi outlived a diagnosis that a lung disease he was suffering from would kill him by the age of 25, his favorite phrase became: “I’m so embarrassed I have lived this long.” But he continued to defy the disease, finally living to ...