Kazuya Kurashima

Kazuya Kurashima's parents are Yoichi Kurashima and Nobuko Kurashima. Yoichi was born into a Kurashima family in Niigata pre. and moved with his parents to Ibaraki pre. when he was twenty-five years old. He was a business man who tried, not too successfully, many different types of business. Nobuko Kurashima was born in Ibaraki pre. into a Oosato family. Nobuko's father had emigrated from Chaina and her mother also came from a family of Polish immigrants. She trained as a primary school teacher but married Yoichi in 1967.