Competition Overview

Japan's largest event showcasing skills-based competition and vocational career education

The National Skills Competition Japan is a skills competition at which young skilled workers
compete to be Japan's number one in terms of their level of skill.
One of the event's objectives is to provide a challenge for the young skilled workers who will play leading roles in the next generation.
Another objective is to showcase how important and necessary skills are, especially by providing young people in the regions
hosting events with opportunities to observe exceptional skills at first hand, thereby cultivating a tendency to respect skills.
Competitors who participate in the National Skills Competition are required to be young people (in principle, aged 23 or younger) selected
via organizations such as prefectural vocational ability development associations.
The National Skills Competition held in the year before the WorldSkills Competition also serves as a trial to select Competitors
who will be sent to the WorldSkills Competition (with the exception of certain occupations).

Competition Dates

17–20 October 2025

(Some skills competitions will take place in advance)

Competition Venues

Aichi International Exhibition Center
[Aichi Sky Expo] Astemo, Ltd.
[Sawa Global Training Center] Aichi Prefectural Aichi High School of Technology and Engineering Chubu Human Resources Development Promotion Center
[Polytechnic Center Chubu] Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Technical College Fureai Skills Center Chiba Human Resources Development Promotion Center Advanced Training Center
[Advanced Polytechnic Center] Kasugai City Ochiai Park Gymnasium CHUO Barbar & Beauty P.T.C.
[National Beauty and Barber Educational Corporation] Hiroshima Confectionery P.T.C.
[Furusawa Gakuen Urban Gakuen Group Educational Corporation] Tokyo Seishin Culinary P.T.C.
[Seishin Gakuen Educational Corporation] Former Tokoname Senior High School Musashino Culinary P.T.C.
[Goto Gakuen Educational Corporation] Shine's Co.,Ltd. Toyota Industries Group Mazda Motor Corporation Hiroshima Plant Vehicle Production Dept. No.1 Painting Training Place Shizuoka College of Technology Shizuoka Campus ＊Professional Training College is abbreviated as P.T.C.

Live Streaming

(Live streaming will be available from late-September 2025)

For Further Details About the Competition

What is One School One Skill?

One School One Skill (OSOS) is a vocational career education program whereby Competitors from various skills competitions
visit schools nationwide as instructors, showcasing real skills.
By experiencing these skills with the instructor, students gain exposure to the possibilities they offer
and learn that everybody has a role to play in shaping the future of these skills.
This initiative originated in Japan, having evolved from the One School One Country Program
launched during the WorldSkills Shizuoka 2007.

OSOS Videos

Competition Digest Videos