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Yokohama Meister Project (Yokohama Meister Project)
Last Updated January 17, 2025
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Since 1996, Yokohama City has selected excellent technicians who contribute to the lives and culture of citizens as "Yokohama Meisters." "Yokohama Meister" is a representative of the technicians in Yokohama City, and trains the younger technicians and inherits valuable skills.
Yokohama Meister Business Promotion Video
Topics
Event
Yokohama Meister Business Panel Exhibition (January 6-February 10, 2025) NEW !!
Welcome to the workshop of model railways! (December 19, 21, 2024) NEW !!
Event information of Yokohama Meister at Muji Konandai Bars (held on November 23, 2024)
Yokohama Meister Festival @ Yokohama City Skills Cultural Center (November 10, 2024)
Selection and recruitment
2024 Yokohama Meister was selected (press release on September 20, 2024) NEW !!
Recruitment of Yokohama Meister in 2024 (press release on March 27, 2024)
Products and services
Published a photo book of "Yokohama Furniture" (March 2021)
Sale of handmade masks by Yokohama Meister Mizumori (obi tailoring) (June 2020)
News
Yokohama Meister's TV Kanagawa "Hama Navi" Appearance Information
Nitta Meister was donated to support Ukrainian refugees (October 13, 2023).
Yokohama Meister Guidebook
Yokohama Meister Guidebook (collective download) (PDF: 7,491KB)
- Introduction of Yokohama Meister Business (P1-2)
- Table of Contents (P3-4)
- Introduction of Yokohama Meister (P5-P46)
- Honorary Yokohama Meister (P47-48)
- Traditional crafts from Yokohama (Yokohama Shibayama Lacquerware, Yokohama Motomachi Furniture, Yokohama Scarf) (P49)
- Activities of Yokohama Meister (P50)
- Yokohama Meister Residential District (back cover)
- Published in January 2025
- A5 version, 52 pages including cover and spine, color
- The booklet version is distributed at the Yokohama City Hall Citizen Information Center, 18 ward offices, libraries in the city, Yokohama City Technical Cultural Center, etc. (Inventories only)
- The Yokohama Meister Guidebook introduces Yokohama Meisters who have agreed to post the article.
Dress | Beauty explorers who beautifully color life
Japanese dressmaker Eiji Suzuki
Shoes repair and manufacturing Murakami base
Living | The master craftsmen who have built up their home style
Tadashi Tamada, sheet metal technician
Woodwork painter Takashi Osawa
Western-style furniture (Yokohama furniture) Masato Uchida
Fittings production Toshio Tanaka
Formwork carpenter Yutaka Takahashi
Architecture carpenter Tetsuya Saegusa
Western-style furniture occupation (chair-hari) Masayoshi Yoshida
Surface (wall) Takashi Yamazaki
Food | A master of food that has introduced the world's food culture
Cook (Western food) Ikuo Shimizu
Tsugio Yamamoto, a Western confectionery manufacturer
Culinary (Sushi dish) Masamichi Nakamaru
Cook (Western cuisine) Yukio Uematsu
Meat Processing/Cooker Takemi Horiuchi
Cook (Western food) Toshihiko Yoshida
Meat Processing Ichiro Nakayama
Culinary (Western food) Shigeru Imahira
Culinary (Japanese cuisine) Kazuki Shimada
Cook (Japanese cuisine) Hideko Yamashita
Life | Modern artisans who convey the skills that add color to life
Lacquerware Craftsman Teruo Miyazaki
Flower decoration Toru Koizumi
Type casting Daimatsu First Line
Model railway model production Yukio Inami
Honorary Yokohama Meister
When Yokohama Meister is retired from the front line or passed away, he will be honorary Yokohama Meister in honor of his achievements so far.
Honorary Yokohama Meister (PDF: 1,101KB)
Yokohama Meister Introduction Videos (Profile Videos)
Yokohama City Official YouTube Channel-Hama Craftsman, Yokohama Meister (outside site)
Click on the image to open the YouTube screen.Yokohama Meister selected in 2023 (Reiwa 5)
Craftsman's Skills | Record video on valuable skills
※Please see record video (traditional skill preservation video) about other valuable skills on Yokohama-shi skill Cultural Center homepage (outside site).
Dress | Beauty explorers who beautifully color life
Living | The master craftsmen who have built up their home style
Architecture carpenter Tetsuya Saegusa
Mr. Masayoshi Yoshida, Western-style furniture work (chair-hari)
Food | A master of food that has introduced the world's food culture
Life | Modern artisans who convey the skills that add color to life
Selection of Yokohama Meister
Yokohama City recruits recommendations (other recommendation, self-recommendation) once a year, selects documents by the selection committee, conducts on-site surveys by on-site investigators, and selects by the selection committee, and selects by Yokohama City. I am.
Job Types
Jobs that require long-term study and experience to acquire skills by providing manufacturing or services using machines that control manually or in part of the process.
Major selection requirements
- Living in Yokohama City.
- You must have at least 15 years of practical experience in the relevant occupation.
- Maintaining a livelihood through the relevant occupation.
- Have valuable skills that are required to be inherited.
- Have outstanding skills.
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- Have excellent skills compared to other technicians who can be said to be Yokohama's leading technicians in this job category.
- Jobs with a skill test must have a first grade or single grade. Other occupations with public qualifications must be qualified according to the skill test grade 1 or single grade qualification.
- Have been evaluated as a high level of technician, such as receiving a commendation from a national or prefectural government or winning a contest.
- Must be motivated to foster undergraduates and have excellent skills transfer skills.
- Have the motivation and ability to develop the industry and spread and promote skills and skills.
- Have personality and business management ability appropriate to act as Yokohama Meister.
- Cooperate with a request from Yokohama City and expect more than 5 years of activity as Yokohama Meister.
Introduction of Yokohama Meister Business
About introduction of Yokohama Meister business and flow of selection, please see this (excerpt from Yokohama Meister Guidebook) (PDF: 635KB). If you would like to receive a more detailed explanation, please contact us as follows.
- Schedule: Set the date and time individually for about one hour between 9:00 and 17:00 from Monday, March 25, 2024 to Thursday, 28th
- Location: Yokohama City Hall (10, 6-50 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama)
- Application: Please call "045 (671) 4098" or e-mail "ke-ginou@city.yokohama.jp" to the Economic Affairs Bureau Employment and Labor Division Skills Group in Yokohama City by 16:00 on the day before the event. Adjust the date and time.
- City hall opening agency, telephone correspondence time: Monday-Friday, 8:45-17:15, excluding holidays
[Reference] Fiscal 2024 (2024) Selection Process
- April: Acceptance of application documents
- May: Document selection by the selection committee
- June-July: Field survey by investigators
- August: Selection by the Selection Committee
- September: Selection by Yokohama City
- October: Award ceremony
Yokohama Meister Selection Committee
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Inquiries to this page
Employment and Labor Division, Civil Economic and Labor Department, Economic Affairs Bureau
Telephone: 045-671-4098
Telephone: 045-671-4098
Fax: 045-664-9188
Email address: ke-ginou@city.yokohama.lg.jp
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