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Rooms for new-employee training, study sessions and seminars inside Japanese offices.
Japanese companies train their own people, starting with new-employee training when graduates join in April, and they hold study sessions — benkyōkai (勉強会) — all year. These offices give the job a room of its own, often one that opens up for events.
01 · Osaka
A seminar room
The rest of the floor is straightforward and well-judged: a showroom where the company’s own product can be demonstrated on a real counter, a seminar room, a utility space, and a working floor kept open with glass partitions and whiteboards.
Read the SMAREGI office →
02 · Tokyo
Seminar seating
Sound leakage and smells were dealt with from the staff’s point of view, and the rooms take everything from a handful of people to a full seminar.
Read the ADWAYS office →
03 · Harumi, Tokyo
The seminar room
The list closes with four rooms: 倭室, the seminar room, the executive room and the reception room.
Read the YAMATO SCIENTIFIC office →
04 · Okayama
The seminar room
Two double-height reception rooms sit on the ground floor, and a space with audiovisual equipment doubles as a seminar room and as the everyday break room.
Read the SERIO office →
05 · Dōgenzaka, Shibuya, Tokyo
The seminar room
At the other end, the seminar room takes more than forty people.
Read the PLAY office →
06 · Hibiya, Tokyo
A seminar room set with chairs
Beside reception, the seminar rooms Kikyō and Ruri open into a single room seating more than fifty, used for training, briefings and the annual entrance ceremony.
Read the BUSINESS BRAIN SHOWA-OTA office →
07 · Tokyo
The training room
A training room with long tables sits beside the desks, and a row of blue-chaired desks runs along the window.
Read the MITSUBISHI MATERIALS TRADING office →
08 · Tokyo
The seminar space
What follows is a kit of parts repeated at every site: open communication areas, enclosed booths for web meetings so a call does not take a room, a seminar space, and a small shop on the floor.
Read the NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS office →
09 · Akasaka, Tokyo
The salon for training
The salon is where training happens, from new-employee programmes to seminars held through the year.
Read the HAKUHODO office →
10 · Meguro, Tokyo
Seminar room Everest
The 120-seat seminar room Opera has coloured chairs and door desks on the ceiling; the rooms on this floor are named after music — rock, samba, jazz, techno.
Read the Amazon Japan office →
11 · Azabu-Juban, Tokyo
Training room
The glass Training Room seats large seminars and becomes fully soundproof when closed; smaller rooms and standing tables are scattered across the floor.
Read the Indeed Japan office →Questions
WALL has picked 11: SMAREGI (Osaka), ADWAYS (Tokyo), YAMATO SCIENTIFIC (Harumi, Tokyo), SERIO (Okayama), PLAY (Dōgenzaka, Shibuya, Tokyo), BUSINESS BRAIN SHOWA-OTA (Hibiya, Tokyo), MITSUBISHI MATERIALS TRADING (Tokyo), NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS (Tokyo), HAKUHODO (Akasaka, Tokyo), Amazon Japan (Meguro, Tokyo), Indeed Japan (Azabu-Juban, Tokyo).
They are spread across 3 places: Tokyo (9), Osaka (1), Okayama (1).
Most are private workplaces and not open to the public. WALL reports on them from the companies’ own published material; each office page links to its source.
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