Kazuaki Harada (Japan)

Website: http://nizo.jp/ (in Japanese) or translated into English.

Born in Japan in 1974, Kazuaki ‘Kazu’ Harada studied art history and worked as an IT specialist. In 2006 he made a pilgrimage to Falmouth to get to know the big names in the automaton scene there. He jobbed at the Fourteen Balls Toy Co., where he developed his own style.