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Features of traditional crafts

1. Requires skill
2. Handicraft
3. Used in everyday life
4. Has a long history for generations

Problems with traditional crafts

1. Lack of young successors

   It used to be serious because it takes a very long time to learn the technique. However, this problem is improving due to the recent trend of quest for purpose of life. Young successors have visited many traditional and local industries, and they have become a source of motivation for their lives, regardless of labor wages.

2. Lack of raw materials

   Domestic products are expensive and are overwhelmed by foreign ingredients. Domestic raw materials have lost their competitiveness due to the strong yen over the years, and the supply itself may have diminished.

3. expensive

   Considering the labor costs of Japan, which is a developed country, it becomes a competitor.Developing countryIn comparison with industrial handicraftsQuite expensiveThere is no choice but to become. However, in the current Japanese market, where Asian handicrafts have penetrated to a certain extent, popular products are made in developing countries, and luxury products are made in Japan and Europe.

4. Innovation and reduced awareness of challenge

   Traditional crafts have changed over a long period of time through improvements and ingenuity, but in recent years they have been protected by subsidies from the national and local governments.The craft itself has also fallen into a state of protection

Protection from the country

To protect, nurture and develop traditional industrial techniques from ancient timesLaw on Promotion of Traditional Craft IndustryWas made. Based on thisMinister of Economy, Trade and Industry Traditional craftsTo specify.

The conditions for designating traditional crafts are as follows.

1. It is a craft used in daily life
2. Handicraft
3. Technology and raw materials have been passed down for over 100 years
4. It is established as an industry in a certain area

As of January 2012, there are 1 traditional crafts designated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry nationwide, and subsidies of more than 207 billion yen are invested annually by the national and local governments.

Related item

• Traditional crafts

外部 リンク

• Traditional Crafts Industry Promotion Association (National Traditional Crafts)
• Ishikawa New Information Book Office
• Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Labor Bureau Tourism Department, Tokyo Traditional Crafts
• Katsushika Ward Traditional Industry Craftsmen Association
• Shinjuku, the kingdom of dyeing (Shinjuku Ward Dyeing Council)
• Kumamoto industrial arts hall

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