Certification of Cooking Skills for Japanese Cuisine in Foreign Countries

Two Foreign Chefs Attained Gold Certification at Yanagihara Cooking School of Traditional Japanese Cuisine under the “Certification of Cooking Skills for Japanese Cuisine in Foreign Countries” program
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Based on the “Guidelines for Certification of Cooking Skills for Japanese Cuisine in Foreign Countries,” which were set forth by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) on April 1, 2016, a gold certification exam was conducted at an accreditation organization Yanagihara Cooking School of Traditional Japanese Cuisine (headed by Mr. Naoyuki Yanagihara, the Kinsaryu Soke). It was the first gold certification exam conducted at the School and two foreign chefs took the challenging test. As a result, both of them successfully attained the gold certification.
As of September 2022, there are 20 holders worldwide of the gold certificate, which lays down the most stringent requirements and the highest levels of skills among the three types of certification. The two gold certification winners have more than two years’ work experience at a Japanese restaurant located in Japan, and hold high aspirations for the Japanese cuisine as proven by, for example, their participation in the Japanese Cuisine and Food Culture Human Resource Development Program (implemented by the Japanese Cuisine and Food Culture Human Resource Development Committee as a MAFF-subsidized project). They are expected to play active roles in the future at a global scale.