2024.01.17

Scientific Pursuit of Beauty, Comfort, & Health: The Challenges of Wacoal's Human Science Research & Development Center

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Supporting Wacoal's manufacturing, the Wacoal Human Science Research & Development Center conducts research on the female body from the perspectives of 'beauty', 'comfort', and 'health'.

This includes researching 'Wacoal's concept of feminine beauty' expressed in specific forms and numbers, developing measurement and evaluation methods for precisely gauging the performance of new products, and developing these products.

Particularly noteworthy is their research on beauty. At this research center, they have been collecting data on the female body from many women for about 60 years, which they use in product development and similar activities.

For this article, we conducted an interview with Taizo Kishimoto, a senior researcher at the Wacoal Human Science Research & Development Center.

PROFILE

Taizo Kishimoto

Taizo Kishimoto was born in 1964 in Hyogo Prefecture and is a senior researcher at the Human Science Research & Development Center of the Wacoal Marketing Headquarters. After graduating from Kyoto Institute of Technology Graduate School, Kishimoto joined Wacoal in 1988. Since then, he has been engaged in basic research on human body shapes centered on 3D scanners, as well as product evaluation research at the center's predecessor, the Human Science Research Institute (人間科学研究所). He has been in his current position since April 2019.

In-depth Research on the Female Body

Firstly, could you tell us about the background to the establishment of the Wacoal Human Science Research & Development Center?

Our company mainly manufactures and sells innerwear. The starting point of our manufacturing is to understand women's body shapes and offer underwear that fits these shapes.