Yamato International — young staff call for Change!

Yamato International, the apparel maker known for the CROCODILE brand, set out to become a company that keeps changing as it reached its 70th year. It began in 2013 with a “Young Change! Project”, and three years later moved its Osaka head office and renewed its Tokyo head office with UCHIDA YOKO. The project covers about 1,094 m².

Company Yamato International Inc. (ヤマトインターナショナル株式会社) ↗Location Osaka and Tokyo head officesArea about 1,094 m²Award 30th Nikkei New Office Awards, Kinki New Office Encouragement PrizeDesign UCHIDA YOKO

Concept

Young voices

Young employees had been leaving one after another, a danger for a company with a high average age. The president asked for a way to talk with them, and the project grew from there.

UCHIDA YOKO proposed a “strategy map” to make issues and goals visible, and workshops to go deeper.

01 · Open

Free address and free spaces

Free address and many kinds of free space make an open design where people talk easily.

02 · Apparel

A place that feels like fashion

The ageing, cluttered office was changed to work better, encourage communication and feel like an apparel company. The project won a Kinki New Office Encouragement Prize at the 30th Nikkei New Office Awards.

CompanyYamato International Inc. ↗

DesignUCHIDA YOKO Co., Ltd.

Photography© UCHIDA YOKO Co., Ltd. (from UCHIDA’s case studies)

Source内田洋行導入事例, “ヤマトインターナショナル株式会社様”, re-reported by WALL ↗

PublishedOctober 2026

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