Hakata weaving (Nakagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture)
Fifth-generation owner of Okano, a prestigious weaver of Hakata textiles, and director of the Oka...
furniture maker (Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture)
Nishida produces imaginative furniture highlighting the beauty of the wood. He aims to create pro...
vinegar producer (Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture)
Seitaro Takahashi, fifteenth-generation proprietor of Shobun Vinegar Co., Ltd., has made it his m...
kumiko artisan (Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture)
One of Masato Kinoshita’s lifelong ambitions has been to make a distinctively Japanese chandelier...
tatami craftsman (Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture)
The area around Okawa is known for the production of igusa, a type of rush used to weave the cove...
woodworker (Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture)
Okawa, a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, is Japan’s premier wood furniture-producing area. Happo-en s...
Taki Washi Paper-making Company (Echizen, Fukui Prefecture)
Hideaki Taki graduated from Fukui University of Technology. He joined Taki Washi Paper-making Com...
Nakatsu Furniture (Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture)
Nagaoka operates the family business, Nakatsu Furniture, which has long been selling brand-name f...
Arita porcelain maker (Arita, Saga Prefecture)
After graduating from university, Satoru Matsumoto worked at a bank for a few years before return...
fruit grower (Tokunoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture)
The 26-year-old Futori grows mangoes on Tokunoshima, one of the islands in the Amami Oshima islan...
head chef, Hagi-no-yado Tomoe (Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture)
Hagi-no-yado Tomoe is a traditional Japanese inn established in 1925 to provide suitably high-cla...
Hagi ware potter (Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture)
Zenemon Sakakura is the tenth hereditary potter of the Sakakura kiln. In operation since the Edo ...
Hagi ware potter (Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture)
Yasushi Okada, son of Yamaguchi Prefecture important intangible cultural heritage Yu Okada, studi...
kamaboko maker (Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture)
The Chukobe Kamaboko Company is a venerable institution in its home ground of Yamaguchi Prefectur...
Kumihimo Japanese Braiding Artist (Kyoto)
Hatsumi Umehara was born to the founding family of a traditional Japanese braided cord maker. Whi...
Kyoto lantern maker (Kyoto)
Kojima Shoten, founded in the late 18th century, is one of the few remaining lantern makers to ca...
head chef, Kuretakeso Group (Hamamatsu , Shizuoka Prefecture)
After graduating from an Osaka culinary academy in 1987, Suzuki went to work at a hotel in Hamama...
Takasaki Daruma Maker (Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture)
Hirohisa Imai is the third-generation owner to run the family business, Imai Daruma Maker, which ...
soy sauce maker (Annaka , Gunma Prefecture)
Koki Yuasa, seventh-generation owner of soy sauce company Aritaya Co., Ltd., goes by the motto “L...
konnyaku maker (Shimonita , Gunma Prefecture)
Designated the one and only konnyaku “meister” in Gunma Prefecture, Shinya Sasaki has continued m...
wagyu beef farmer (Shibukawa , Gunma Prefecture)
Toriyama, owner of the Toriyama Ranch and vice-president of the Toriyama Farming and Food Co., Lt...
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