Takeshi Kobayashi
The concept for AP Bank arose out of a series of seminars in 2002 by the members of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Artists Power", a project started in 2001 by Sakamoto and Takuro of Glay to engender more financial responsibility amongst musicians. Seminar organiser and music producer Takeshi Kobayashi invited members to learn from experts about citizen's banks, where money is used according to the depositor's wishes as opposed to