Morimoto Komuten in Tamashima is a construction company that has supported the local community through building wooden homes.
Supporting each employee working on site is the administrative team, led by the general affairs department. At Morimoto Komuten, the team helps create a safe and smooth working environment while also communicating the company’s appeal to people inside and outside the company.
Among those supporting the employees and the company was a young employee who took on a wide range of duties, including accounting, human resources, and public relations.
Meet Morimoto Rina, a young employee at Morimoto Komuten.
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About Morimoto Komuten
Morimoto Komuten Co., Ltd. is a construction company founded in 1963 in Tamashima, Kurashiki City.
With the concept of “a genuine wooden home, arrived at in the pursuit of creating something that cannot be imitated,” the company builds homes tailored to each customer’s lifestyle.
Its construction area is limited to places within an hour’s drive of Morimoto Komuten, reflecting its commitment to serving the local community. This is because the company does not consider its work finished once a home is complete. It limits construction to areas it can reach quickly, so it can promptly address concerns about the home and daily life even after construction is finished.
Because the company handles everything in-house, from design and construction to after-sales service and renovations, its relationships with customers continue for many years, earning their deep trust. Many customers even commission homes for two generations of their family.
Building homes that continue to be loved by local people across generations is a true hallmark of a construction company rooted in its community.
Carefully selected wood and homebuilding that brings out the character of each piece
Morimoto Komuten’s website describes its approach to homebuilding in full. Here, we introduce some of its carefully selected wood and the highly refined skills of its craftspeople.
Morimoto Komuten carefully manages all its lumber in its own timber warehouse. The wood is naturally dried over time, giving it a pleasant aroma and making it less prone to warping, resulting in exceptionally high quality. By naturally drying the wood in-house, the company can build high-quality wooden homes while keeping costs down.
Compared with kiln-dried wood, naturally dried wood has a better aroma, greater strength, and lasts longer.
The company entrusts this carefully selected wood to top-class craftspeople who are also entrusted with work at shrines and temples. They build homes that make the most of each piece of wood’s unique qualities.
Morimoto Komuten also focuses on training craftspeople. By passing on their skills, the company does more than simply build homes: it carries Japanese craftsmanship into the future.
The Morimoto Komuten website shares the company’s dedication and passion for homebuilding. If you’re interested, be sure to take a look.
Morimoto Rina, who works at Morimoto Komuten
Our interviewee was Morimoto Rina, who works in general affairs at Morimoto Komuten. Born in 1997, she is from Tamashima, Kurashiki City.
Morimoto was born and raised in Tamashima.
She had been considering employment after high school since middle school. After enrolling at Tamashima Commercial High School, she joined Morimoto Komuten in 2016.
Morimoto’s work
As a member of the General Affairs Department, Morimoto is responsible for three main areas: accounting, human resources, and public relations.
The accounting work she has handled since joining the company mainly involves administrative tasks, such as managing daily payments and receipts and preparing invoices and contracts. In her third year, she also earned the challenging Level 2 Construction Industry Accounting Certification.
The next area she took on was human resources.
As a recruiter, Morimoto not only attends joint company information sessions at universities, but also handles detailed tasks such as communicating with students going through the selection process and managing the company’s job-search website listings.
The recruitment website, which Morimoto also helped create, is well organized and very easy to navigate. Morimoto Komuten also offers distinctive programs, including planning and designing a traditional-house restoration project, internships where participants can try making wooden cutting boards, and half-day workplace experiences where they can interact directly with the company president and on-site staff.
Morimoto says that public relations is the work she has enjoyed most recently.
She takes on creative tasks such as planning and producing the “Kinoka Mail” newsletter and managing the company’s social media accounts.
Morimoto sometimes uses specialized software to handle design and video editing. Since she does this alongside her other duties, it can be demanding, but she says that being able to take on challenges in a variety of fields—something she might not otherwise get to experience—is possible precisely because the company is small.
How she came to work at Morimoto Komuten
Morimoto was born and raised in Tamashima.
Since middle school, she had thought, “I’ll get a job after graduating from high school,” and went on to Okayama Prefectural Tamashima Commercial High School, which she felt had a strong reputation for helping students find jobs.
Of the three departments and courses, she chose the Distribution and Sales Course. In her first year, she studied basic bookkeeping, and in her second year, she learned practical, specialized knowledge such as store management and sales promotion.
When it was time to decide on her career path, Morimoto looked for a company that was easy to commute to and offered work where she could apply what she had learned in high school. She found Morimoto Komuten among the job listings at her school.
During her job search, she visited three companies. Looking back, she says that Morimoto Komuten had the best workplace atmosphere. From the moment she entered the company, it was filled with a warm, welcoming atmosphere rather than a formal, businesslike one, and she could feel the difference from the other companies. Morimoto says that, as a high school student at the time, seeing kind employees helped her feel at ease.
The good impression she had of the employees’ personalities and the workplace atmosphere during her company visit has not changed since she joined.
What does Morimoto see as the appeal of Morimoto Komuten as a workplace?
Morimoto says, “I think every employee at Morimoto Komuten has a wealth of knowledge.”
Even when unfamiliar technical terms come up at work, she says, anyone can ask a colleague, and they will explain them carefully.
At Morimoto Komuten, new employees take part in a unique training program after joining the company: each day, they accompany a different employee and learn about that person’s work. Because they have opportunities to interact with every employee, it becomes easier to approach people in other departments, creating an environment where anyone can be consulted.
Another appealing aspect of Morimoto Komuten is that many employees are passionate about homebuilding.
That passion is never simply stubbornness. Instead, employees take customers’ requests and intentions into account and use them to make suggestions for an even better life at home.
When Morimoto visits a construction site to take photos for social media, she asks the site supervisor or sales representative, “What are the highlights of this house?” She says that because every part of the house reflects careful attention to detail, they sometimes have trouble deciding what to feature.
Behind Morimoto Komuten’s homebuilding is the sincere dedication of its employees, who pour all their skills and knowledge, as well as their passion and commitment, into their work.
Morimoto joined Morimoto Komuten and is in her 10th year with the company in 2025. We spoke with her about what makes the company a great place to work long-term and what she finds rewarding about her job.
Morimoto Construction Co., Ltd. Information
| Organization Name | Morimoto Construction Co., Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Industry | General construction, first-class architect's office, real estate brokerage |
| Representative | Hajime Morimoto |
| Year Established | 1971 |
| Address | 1026 Tamashima Yuzaki, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture |
| Contact | 086-528-2121 |
| Website | Morimoto Construction Website |
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