[MHLW] The 41st National Vocational Skills Competition of People with Disabilities (Abilympics)

From December 17 - 20, 2021, the 41st National Vocational Skills Competition for Persons with Disabilities (Abilympics) was held at Tokyo Big Sight. It was organized by the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers under the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW). For COVID-19 control, this year's competition was open to athletes and officials only, with 370 athletes participating in a total of 25 events.

The Abilympics, a term coined by combining the words ABILITY and OLYMPICS, has been held annually since 1972 (except in the year of the International Abilympics) with the aim of improving the vocational skills of people with disabilities, deepening understanding and awareness of people with disabilities among businesses and the public, as well as promoting employment.

The Gold Award winners and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Award winners are as follows. In addition, there are also Silver, Bronze, and Effort Award winners.

(Honorifics omitted)

Skills Competition Categories

Name

Recommending Prefectures

Dressmaking

Yujin Fujisawa

Tokyo

Furniture

Masaaki Shinkura

Kagoshima

Desktop publishing (DTP)

Takahiro Ikefuji

Kochi

Mechanical CAD

-none-

 

Architectural CAD

-none-

 

Electronic assembly

Keisuke Yoshida

Aichi

Artificial limb

-none-

 

Dental technology

Shoichi Nakazawa

Tokyo

Word processing

Kimika Okawa

Osaka

Database

Katsuyuki Onoda

Aichi

Home page

-none-

 

Flower Arrangements

Hatumi Kawakami

Saitama

Computer programming

-none-

 

Building clean-up

Yuki Kimura

Tokyo

Product packing

Ayana Shishido

Miyagi

Café services

Kurumi Shiraishi

Ibaraki

Office assistant

Asuka Ido

Ehime

Spreadsheets

Ryoko Yoneda

Fukuoka

Nail treatment

Mimu Arayama

Chiba

Photography

Kaede Arahira

Kagoshima

Computer assembly

Dai Harada

Kumamoto

Computer operation

Rina Inouch

Osaka

Computer data entry

Yuta Watanabe

Tokyo

Sewing

Daisuke Sumita

Miyazaki

Woodworking

Yuto Hidaka

Kagoshima

For more information, please visit the website below (Japanese only):
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_22821.html
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