Self-employment × Strengths: Creativity & Ideation
For Those Strong in Creativity & Ideation
This collection features jobs that may suit those who are relatively comfortable generating new ideas and concepts.
Creativity holds value not only in artistic fields but in all kinds of work. Both small ideas that improve existing methods and entirely new concepts are expressions of creativity. Additionally, some deepen their thinking alone, while others develop ideas through dialogue with others.
The jobs introduced here tend to offer more opportunities to utilize new ideas. Explore how your creativity can flourish.
6 jobs found.
Leather sewing worker
A craftsman who cuts leather materials, sews and finishes them to produce leather products such as bags and wallets.
Mounting Craftsman
A mounting craftsman is a traditional artisan who laminates paper and fabric used in Japanese decorative items such as hanging scrolls, screens, and fusuma doors, applies gold leaf pressing and decorations, and finishes them.
Bread and Confectionery Maker
A profession that mixes raw materials such as flour and sugar, performs fermentation, shaping, baking, and finishing to mass-produce or handcraft bread and confectionery.
Folding Screen Paperer
Traditional craft occupation that attaches Japanese paper or cloth to the frame of a folding screen and decorates it with lacquer or gold leaf.
Wood Inlay (Inlay) Craftsman
Craftsman who embeds different materials into the wood surface to decorate with patterns and designs.
Japanese fresh confectionery manufacturing worker
Artisans and technicians who manufacture Japanese-style fresh confections using glutinous rice flour, wheat flour, sugar, and anko as raw materials. They knead, shape, steam, and finish by hand or with dedicated machines, adding seasonal appeal and aesthetic elements before providing them.