Dietitian or national registered dietitian

It is the national qualification of Japan, and you will develop and create menus.

You need to enroll in a school designated and approved as a dietitian training facility by the Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare. You must take the full-time course, and graduate it.
When graduating, you are qualified. This qualification is nationally certified, but no exams are imposed.

• Enroll in a 2-year or 4-year school (specialty school/junior college/university)
• Acquire enough credits
• Apply to each prefectural governor
• Obtaine a dietitian qualification
• Application qualifications vary depending on each school, but Japanese language ability is required.
• Tuition fees range from school to school.
  Ex) TOKYO SHOKURYO DIETITIAN ACADEMY

2-year course (Nutritionist): Approximately 2.8 million yen
4-year course (Registered dietitian): Approximately 5.6 million yen
* Textbooks are required for each.

First of all, it is a prerequisite that you have a dietitian qualification.
Registered dietitians are required to pass the national examination, which is conducted once a year. The qualifications for taking the exam are as follows.

• If you graduate from a dietitian school with two years of study, you need to work as a dietitian for three years or more.
• If you graduate from a dietitian school with three years of study, you need to work as a dietitian for two years or more.
• If you graduate from a dietitian school with four years of study, you need to work as a dietitian for at least one year.
• If you graduate from a registered dietitian school with four years of study, you do not need to work as a dietitian.

Licensed cook

This qualification is a national qualification of Japan, and you cook according to the menu prepared by dietitians or registered dietitians.

Take and pass the cooking exam after more than two years of work experience at the applicable facility.

• Two years or more of work experience is a mandatory condition, and it generally means four days or more work per week and six hours or more work per day.
• The cooking and cooking food is an effective practice, and waitresses and dishwashing are not counted in the work experience.
• In order to prove the work experience, it is necessary to get a certificate issued from a shop or company.
  You can use the Certification form for Cooking Work on the Cooking Technical Skills Center website.
• Regarding the applicable facilities, the Cooks Act, Enforcement Regulations, Article 4 clearly states as follows.
  □Business at restaurants (including inns and simple lodgings)
  □Fish and shellfish cooking business (only sales are not recognized as work experience)
  □Side dish cooking industry (the company that manufactures simmered foods including tsukudani (preservable food boiled down in soy sauce), stir-fried foods, roasted foods, fried foods, steamed foods, vinegared foods, or seasoned foods)
  □School lunch facilities such as schools, hospitals, and dormitories (working at a facility that cooks 20 or more meals at a time, or 50 or more meals a day)

Enroll in a cooking school (training facility) designated by each prefecture and obtain the required credits.
You have qualified for a cooking license without taking the cooking exam when graduating from the designated school.

• The study period will be one or two years, but the curriculum will differ from school to school.
• Currently, there are about 270 schools in Japan, including daytime schools and nighttime schools.
• To take an entrance examination is necessary to enter school, and Japanese language ability is also required.
• Tuition fees vary from school to school.
  Nagoya Cooking School, 1-year course: about 1.2 million yen, 2-year course: about 2.3 million yen.
  * Textbooks and school supplies (apron, cook coat, kitchen knife set) are required apart from the above.