Mitsuharu Kurokawa, a Tokyo native, graduated from Babson College in 2008. He began his career at Toraya's Tokyo Factory, later working in Toraya France's kitchen. Then he worked for a trading company overlooking Southeast Asia and the Middle East, based in Singapore and Dubai.
Since 2013, he has been with Toraya, serving as Vice President from 2018 to 2020 and currently as its president.