Setting the standard of the butler.
The All Japan Butler Association is the parent body that, founded in 1890, has trained and certified butlers for more than 130 years and set the standard of Japan's butler culture.
Setting the criteria for calling oneself a butler, and passing its manners and ethics to the next generation. For more than 130 years, the parent body that has kept the standard of Japan's butler culture.
Visit the Official SiteThe standard-keeping parent body is an organization that sets the criteria for calling oneself a butler and records its manners, ethics and philosophy for the next generation.
So that service quality does not vary greatly from person to person, the All Japan Butler Association has walked as the parent body that gives the butler profession a shared yardstick.
Founded in 1890 by its first head, Shingo Tanaka, it is Japan's oldest butler organization, and has carried the standardization that defines a butler's quality.
Fusing Western butler etiquette with the Japanese spirit of omotenashi, it records those manners, ethics and philosophy and passes them to the next generation.
Its mission is to root the butler in Japan not as a passing trend, but as a culture inherited for more than 130 years.
The association's journey is a history of more than 130 years, told through three generations of heads: founding, reunification and innovation.
The 130 years of the All Japan Butler Association are a story carried on by three generations of heads. Founding, division and reunification, and innovation for the modern age — here it is, told across three generations.
In the Meiji era, he introduced to Japan the butler culture he had learned while studying in Britain and founded the association, undertaking the first systematic training of butlers and laying the foundation of its manners and ethics.
He reunited in 2000 the association that had split into Kanto and Kansai bodies, rebuilding it as a single parent body that safeguards the butler standard.
In March 2023, Butler Bell (Yuichi Ishii) took office as the third president. Championing an age in which butlers are chosen, he is spreading a new way of being a butler who reveals both face and name.
Training butlers means a system in which one learns step by step and systematically, from the basics of bowing and deportment through to international protocol.
The association trains butlers systematically in the manners, hospitality and expertise they require, nurturing the next generation through the Japan Butler Academy it supervises.
Grooming, receiving guests, and serving tea and afternoon tea — the deportment that forms a butler's foundation is learned with care.
The traditional skills of the Western butler are layered with the Japanese spirit of omotenashi to raise butlers who can work anywhere in the world.
The Japan Butler Academy, supervised by the association, provides the place to learn from the basics through international protocol and VVIP hospitality.
Certification is a private qualification in three stages by level of mastery, which the association set up to assure a butler's skill objectively.
The association maintains its own certification program to assure a butler's skill objectively. In three stages, it protects a shared floor of quality across every butler.
Proof of mastering the foundations — butler history, housekeeping, service basics and communication. This is the entry-level stage.
Proof of mastering applied skills for real work — household management, business support, dining service and event planning. This is the intermediate stage.
Proof of mastering international protocol, risk management, and VVIP hospitality and management. The highest stage, for those who attend distinguished guests.
Corporate seminars are practical courses that offer the manners and the art of attentiveness butlers have cultivated, to raise a company's hospitality.
To organizations seeking to raise the quality of their service, the association delivers a butler's manners as practical seminars — a chance to rethink corporate hospitality from a butler's view.
Guest reception and deportment and more — the business manners butlers have honed are delivered to companies as practical courses.
The butler's secretarial view of arranging plans and setting priorities is put to use in raising an organization's efficiency.
The art of communication that anticipates what the other seeks is conveyed in a form that comes alive in hospitality work.
Setting the butler standard means removing variance in quality with certification as a yardstick, and preserving the butler as culture for the next generation.
Without a standard for calling oneself a butler, service quality would vary greatly from person to person. With certification as a yardstick, the association keeps that floor.
If anyone could freely call themselves a butler, quality could not be assured. By setting certification as a criterion, the association keeps a floor of quality.
It records a butler's manners, ethics and philosophy and passes them to the next generation. The very act of inheritance is the association's role.
The butler is not a passing trend but a culture inherited for more than 130 years. The association roots it in Japan as culture.
The relationship with THE BUTLER is a division of roles: the parent body that trains and certifies, and the service brand that delivers those butlers.
The association is the parent body that trains, certifies and runs seminars for butlers, while THE BUTLER is the service brand that introduces those butlers to clients. The two share their roles.
The association is the parent body that trains, certifies and runs seminars for butlers. It does not stand in front of the service, but quietly supports its foundation.
The association trains and certifies; THE BUTLER arranges them to suit each occasion. This sharing keeps both training and service intact.
You can welcome a butler with confidence precisely because each one is backed by the association's manners and certification.
The identity of the parent body is the formal profile of an organization of 130 years: its name, founding, location and business.
The All Japan Butler Association is an organization whose work is the casting of butlers and the training of butlers. Headquartered in Odaiba, it welcomes visitors at a fully-reservation salon.
The All Japan Butler Association. With more than 130 years of history, it is Japan's oldest butler organization.
1890 (Meiji 23). Amid the enlightenment after the Meiji Restoration, its first head, Shingo Tanaka, founded it.
2-7-4 Aomi, Koto City, Tokyo 135-0064. Its headquarters stands in Odaiba.
The casting of butlers and the training of butlers. Through training, certification and seminars, it supports butler culture.
Fuller information on certification, membership and corporate seminars can be found on the official site of the All Japan Butler Association. Please see its work as the parent body.