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Yokohama Meister Project (Yokohama Meister Project)
Last Updated November 18, 2024
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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
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)
Event
Welcome to the workshop of model railways! (December 19, 21, 2024) NEW !!
Yokohama Meister Business Panel Exhibition (PM-28, October 21, 2024 AM)
Yokohama Meister Festival @ Yokohama City Skills Cultural Center (November 10, 2024)
Products and services
Updated the Yokohama Meister Digital Catalog "Takumi's Masterpieces and Skills" (March 2024)
Published a photo book of "Yokohama Furniture" (March 2021)
Sale of handmade masks by Yokohama Meister Mizumori (obi tailoring) (June 2020)
News
Nitta Meister was donated to support Ukrainian refugees (October 13, 2023).
Yokohama Meister Guidebook
Yokohama Meister Guidebook (collective download) (PDF: 17,594KB)
- Introduction of Yokohama Meister Business (P1-2)
- Table of Contents (P3-4)
- Introduction of Yokohama Meister (P5-P47)
- Traditional crafts from Yokohama (Yokohama Shibayama Lacquerware, Yokohama Motomachi Furniture, Yokohama Scarf) (P48)
- Honorary Yokohama Meister (P49-50)
- Yokohama Meister Residential District (back cover)
- 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
Mr. Eiji Suzuki, a Japanese dressmaker
Mr. Tadaetsu Abe, a dressmaker
Shoes repair and manufacturing Mr. Moto Murakami
Living | The master craftsmen who have built up their home style
Tadashi Tamada, sheet metal technician
Woodworking Painter Takashi Osawa
Western-style furniture (Yokohama furniture) Katsuto Uchida
Manufacture of fittings Toshio Tanaka
Mr. Yutaka Takahashi, formwork carpenter
Architecture carpenter Tetsuya Saegusa
Mr. Masayoshi Yoshida, Western-style furniture work (chair-hari)
Surface (wall) Takashi Yamazaki
Food | A master of food that has introduced the world's food culture
Cook (Western food) Ikuo Shimizu
Tsuguo Yamamoto, a Western confectionery manufacturer
Cook (sushi dish) Masamichi Nakamaru
Cook (Western food) Yukio Uematsu
Meat processing and cook Mr. Takami Horiuchi
Chef (Western food) Toshihiko Yoshida
Mr. Ichiro Nakayama, meat processing
Cook (Western food) Shigeru Imahira
Cook (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 Mr. Toru Koizumi
Mr. Yukio Inami, a model railway model production
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.
- Hairdresser Eddie Imamura
- Mr. Kenji Ueda (Yokohama Furniture)
Here are some of the past guidebook pages.
Mr. Yasuo Kimura (PDF: 1,050KB)
Takezaiku Masaharu Moriya (PDF: 1,065KB)
Culinary (Chinese cuisine) Yoshiaki Abe (PDF: 1,050KB)
Clothing Sewer Toshiaki Tanaka (PDF: 1,077KB)
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.
Introduction of Yokohama Meister Business
About introduction of Yokohama Meister business and flow of selection, please see this (excerpt from Yokohama Meister Guidebook) (PDF: 1,178KB). 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 2023 (2023) Selection Process
- April: Acceptance of application documents
- May: Document selection by the selection committee
- June-July: Field survey by investigators
- July: Selection by the selection committee, selection by Yokohama City
- August: Award ceremony
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.
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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