一the employer is one that falls under all of the following (excluding the employers listed in items (ii) through (iv)):

イthe employer is one that falls under any of the following:

（１）an employer that establishes or improves a place of business in an approved employment development promotion area (meaning an approved employment development promotion area prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promotion of Job Opportunities in Certain Regions (Act No. 23 of 1987); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph);

（２）an employer that establishes or improves a place of business in an area where there is a risk that employment opportunities will be significantly insufficient because establishing or improving a place of business has become particularly difficult due to population decline, geographical conditions or other factors, and which is found to require a particular increase in employment opportunities when the area's population dynamics, etc. are taken into consideration, and which is designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for a specified period (hereinafter in this item referred to as a "depopulated or similar area for employment improvement");

（３）an employer that establishes or improves a place of business in the Amami Islands prescribed in Article 1 of the Act on Special Measures for the Amami Islands Promotion and Development (Act No. 189 of 1954), the Ogasawara Islands prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures for the Ogasawara Islands Development (Act No. 79 of 1969), or a specified inhabited remote border island area prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Special Measures for the Conservation of Inhabited Remote Border Island Areas and the Maintenance of Local Communities in Specified Inhabited Remote Border Island Areas (Act No. 33 of 2016) (hereinafter in this item referred to as "specified inhabited remote border island areas, etc.");

ロthe employer is one that has submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau a plan concerning the establishment or improvement of the place of business pertaining to the establishment or improvement under (a) (hereinafter in this item and item (i) of the following paragraph referred to as the "target workplace") and the hiring of workers accompanying that establishment or improvement;

ハthe employer is one that, accompanying the establishment or improvement of the target workplace, during the period from the day listed in (1) to the day listed in (2), hires three or more persons (two or more persons in the case of business start-up) as workers to be continuously employed, through referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau), from among job seekers residing within the jurisdiction of a Public Employment Security Office that has jurisdiction over the approved employment development promotion area in which the target workplace is located, or over an approved employment development promotion area adjacent to that approved employment development promotion area, a depopulated or similar area for employment improvement, or specified inhabited remote border island areas, etc. (for a depopulated or similar area for employment improvement and specified inhabited remote border island areas, etc., including a person found to need, upon hiring, to change domicile or residence to within the jurisdiction of the Public Employment Security Office that has jurisdiction over that depopulated or similar area for employment improvement or those specified inhabited remote border island areas, etc.) (excluding a job seeker in workplace adaptation training, a person who had been employed by a related employer, and any other person found to be able to find employment easily; referred to as a "local job seeker" in item (i), (b) of the following paragraph);

（１）the day on which the plan under (b) was submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau;

（２）the day on which a notification of completion of the establishment or improvement of the target workplace was submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau (where that notification is not submitted by the day on which 18 months have elapsed counting from the day listed in (1), the day on which those 18 months elapse);

ニthe employer is one whose hiring under (c) is found to contribute to the improvement of the employment structure in the approved employment development promotion area, depopulated or similar area for employment improvement or specified inhabited remote border island areas, etc. pertaining to that hiring;

ホthe employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (c) during the period from the day listed in (c), (1) to the day listed in (c), (2) (referred to as the "completion date" in item (i) of the following paragraph) (referred to as the "reference period" in (f)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

ヘthe employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (c) and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

トthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of payment of wages to the persons pertaining to the hiring under (c);

二the employer is one that falls under all of the following (excluding the employers listed in the following item and item (iv)):

イthe employer is one that establishes or improves a place of business within the area of the prefecture in which the regional revitalization employment creation project prescribed in Article 140-2 (hereinafter in this item referred to as the "regional revitalization employment creation project") is implemented (referred to as the "area of the implementing prefecture" in (c) and (d));

ロthe employer is one that has submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau a plan concerning the establishment or improvement of the place of business pertaining to the establishment or improvement under (a) (hereinafter in this item and item (ii) of the following paragraph referred to as the "target workplace") and the hiring of workers accompanying that establishment or improvement, and that participates in the regional revitalization employment creation project;

ハthe employer is one that, accompanying the establishment or improvement of the target workplace, during the period from the day listed in (1) to the day listed in (2), hires three or more persons (two or more persons in the case of business start-up) as workers to be continuously employed, through referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau), from among job seekers residing in the area of the implementing prefecture in which the target workplace is located (excluding a job seeker in workplace adaptation training, a person who had been employed by a related employer, and any other person found to be able to find employment easily; referred to as a "local job seeker" in item (ii), (b) of the following paragraph). In this case, at least one of those workers to be continuously employed must be a person who is neither a worker who concludes a labor contract with a fixed term (hereinafter referred to as a "fixed-term contract worker") nor a dispatched worker (meaning a dispatched worker prescribed in Article 2, item (ii) of the Worker Dispatching Act; the same applies hereinafter), who is employed with prescribed weekly working hours the same as the prescribed weekly working hours of workers with a standard employment status employed at the same place of business, and to whom the same wage system as that for workers with a standard employment status, established as provided in a collective agreement, rules of employment or the equivalent, is applied.

（１）the day on which the plan under (b) was submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau;

（２）the day on which a notification of completion of the establishment or improvement of the target workplace was submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau (where that notification is not submitted by the day on which 18 months have elapsed counting from the day listed in (1), the day on which those 18 months elapse);

ニthe employer is one whose hiring under (c) is found to contribute particularly to the improvement of the employment structure in the area of the implementing prefecture pertaining to that hiring;

ホthe employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (c) during the period from the day listed in (c), (1) to the day listed in (c), (2) (referred to as the "completion date" in item (ii) of the following paragraph) (referred to as the "reference period" in (f)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

ヘthe employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (c) and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

トthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of payment of wages to the persons pertaining to the hiring under (c);

三the employer is one that falls under all of the following (excluding the employers listed in the following item):

イthe employer is one that falls under all of the following:

（１）the employer is one that has prepared a plan concerning an increase in employment opportunities within an approved employment development promotion area (limited to one found to contribute particularly to the improvement of the employment structure of that approved employment development promotion area; hereinafter in this item and item (iii) of the following paragraph referred to as a "large-scale employment development plan") and has received certification from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare;

（２）the employer is one that, based on the large-scale employment development plan certified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under (1), establishes a place of business within the approved employment development promotion area pertaining to that large-scale employment development plan;

（３）the employer is one that, accompanying the establishment of the place of business pertaining to the establishment under (2), within the period specified in the large-scale employment development plan, hires 100 or more persons as workers to be continuously employed (excluding part-time workers), through referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau), from among job seekers who reside in the approved employment development promotion area in which that place of business is located or in an approved employment development promotion area adjacent to that approved employment development promotion area, or who intend to change their domicile or residence to within that approved employment development promotion area or such an adjacent approved employment development promotion area (excluding a job seeker in workplace adaptation training, a person who had been employed by a related employer, and any other person found to be able to find employment easily; referred to as a "local job seeker" in item (iii), (b) of the following paragraph);

（４）the employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the place of business pertaining to the hiring under (3) during the period from the first day of the period specified in the large-scale employment development plan to the last day of that period (referred to as the "expiry date" in item (iii) of the following paragraph) (referred to as the "reference period" in (5)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

（５）the employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the place of business pertaining to the hiring under (3) and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

ロthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of payment of wages to the persons pertaining to the hiring under (a), (3);

四the employer is one that falls under all of the following (excluding an employer that has already received payment under the provisions of this Article as one falling under this item):

イthe employer is one that establishes or improves a place of business within the area of a local government in which the Town, People, and Job Creation donation-funded project prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Local Revitalization Act (limited to a project prescribed in item (i), (a) of that paragraph that aims at improving the regional employment structure; hereinafter in this item referred to as a "donation-funded project") that is stated in the certified local revitalization plan prepared by a certified local government prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of that Act (referred to as a "certified local government" in (b)) is implemented (referred to as the "area of the implementing local government" in (c) and (d));

ロthe employer is one that has submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau a plan concerning the establishment or improvement of the place of business pertaining to the establishment or improvement under (a) (hereinafter in this item and item (iv) of the following paragraph referred to as the "target workplace") and the hiring of workers accompanying that establishment or improvement, and has made a donation relating to the donation-funded project to the certified local government;

ハthe employer is one that, accompanying the establishment or improvement of the target workplace, during the period from the day listed in (1) to the day listed in (2), hires three or more persons as workers to be continuously employed, through referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau), from among job seekers residing in the area of the implementing local government in which the target workplace is located (excluding a job seeker in workplace adaptation training, a person who had been employed by a related employer, and any other person found to be able to find employment easily; referred to as a "local job seeker" in item (iv), (b) of the following paragraph);

（１）the day on which the plan under (b) was submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau;

（２）the day on which a notification of completion of the establishment or improvement of the target workplace was submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau (where that notification is not submitted by the day on which 18 months have elapsed counting from the day listed in (1), the day on which those 18 months elapse);

ニthe employer is one whose hiring under (c) is found to contribute particularly to the improvement of the employment structure in the area of the implementing local government pertaining to that hiring;

ホthe employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (c) during the period from the day listed in (c), (1) to the day listed in (c), (2) (referred to as the "completion date" in item (iv) of the following paragraph) (referred to as the "reference period" in (f)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

ヘthe employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (c) and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

トthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of payment of wages to the persons pertaining to the hiring under (c);

五the number of persons specified in the relevant provision according to the categories of employers set out in (a) through (d) below.

イan employer listed in item (i): the persons pertaining to the hiring under (c) of that item;

ロan employer listed in item (ii): the persons pertaining to the hiring under (c) of that item;

ハan employer listed in item (iii): the persons pertaining to the hiring under (a), (3) of that item;

ニan employer listed in the preceding item: the persons pertaining to the hiring under (c) of that item.

一an employer listed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph: any of the following cases:

イwhere the number of workers of the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under item (i), (c) of the preceding paragraph, as of the last day of each period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the completion date, falls below the number of those persons as of the completion date;

ロwhere, after the completion date, the employer ceases to employ at the target workplace the persons pertaining to the hiring under item (i), (c) of the preceding paragraph (excluding the case where, promptly on or after the time when the employer ceases to employ that worker (excluding a time of ceasing to employ due to dismissal (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker)), the employer newly hires a local job seeker as a worker to be continuously employed);

ハwhere, during a period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the completion date, the employer dismisses a worker of the target workplace (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker);

二an employer listed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph: any of the following cases:

イwhere the number of workers of the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under item (ii), (c) of the preceding paragraph, as of the last day of each period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the completion date, falls below the number of those workers as of the completion date;

ロwhere, after the completion date, the employer ceases to employ at the target workplace the persons pertaining to the hiring under item (ii), (c) of the preceding paragraph (excluding the case where, promptly on or after the time when the employer ceases to employ that worker (excluding a time of ceasing to employ due to dismissal (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker)), the employer newly hires a local job seeker as a worker to be continuously employed);

ハwhere, during a period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the completion date, the employer dismisses a worker of the target workplace (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker);

三an employer listed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph: any of the following cases:

イwhere the number of workers of the place of business pertaining to the establishment under item (iii), (a), (2) of the preceding paragraph, as of the last day of each period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the expiry date, falls below the number of those workers as of the expiry date;

ロwhere, after the expiry date, the employer ceases to employ, at the place of business pertaining to the establishment under item (iii), (a), (2) of the preceding paragraph, the persons pertaining to the hiring under (a), (3) of that item (excluding the case where, promptly on or after the time when the employer ceases to employ that worker (excluding a time of ceasing to employ due to dismissal (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker)), the employer newly hires a local job seeker as a worker to be continuously employed);

ハwhere, during a period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the expiry date, the employer dismisses a worker of the target workplace (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker);

四an employer listed in item (iv) of the preceding paragraph: any of the following cases:

イwhere the number of workers of the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under item (iv), (c) of the preceding paragraph, as of the last day of each period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the completion date, falls below the number of those workers as of the completion date;

ロwhere, after the completion date, the employer ceases to employ at the target workplace the persons pertaining to the hiring under item (iv), (c) of the preceding paragraph (excluding the case where, promptly on or after the time when the employer ceases to employ that worker (excluding a time of ceasing to employ due to dismissal (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker)), the employer newly hires a local job seeker as a worker to be continuously employed);

ハwhere, during a period divided by one-year intervals counting from the day following the completion date, the employer dismisses a worker of the target workplace (excluding dismissal due to the impossibility of continuing the business owing to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or dismissal for reasons attributable to the worker).

一the employer is one that falls under any of the following:

イthe employer is one that falls under all of the following:

（１）the employer is one that establishes or improves a place of business within the area of Okinawa Prefecture;

（２）the employer is one that has prepared a plan concerning the establishment or improvement of the place of business pertaining to the establishment or improvement under (1) (hereinafter in this item referred to as the "target workplace") and the hiring of workers accompanying that establishment or improvement (hereinafter in this item referred to as the "plan"), and has received certification from the Director of the Okinawa Labor Bureau;

（３）the employer is one that, accompanying the establishment or improvement of the target workplace, during the period from the day listed in (i) to the day listed in (ii) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "target period"), hires three or more persons as workers to be continuously employed from among job seekers under 35 years of age residing within the area of Okinawa Prefecture (excluding a job seeker in workplace adaptation training, a person who had been employed by a related employer, and any other person found to be able to find employment easily; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "young job seekers in Okinawa");

（ｉ）the day on which the employer submits the plan to the Director of the Okinawa Labor Bureau;

（ｉｉ）the day on which the employer submits to the Director of the Okinawa Labor Bureau a notification to the effect that the establishment or improvement of the target workplace has been completed (or, where the employer does not submit that notification during the period up to the day on which 24 months elapse counting from the day listed in (i), the day on which those 24 months elapse; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "completion date");

（４）the employer is an employer other than one that, during the period from the first day of the period specified in the plan to the day on which six months elapse counting from the completion date (hereinafter in (5) and the following paragraph referred to as the "reference period"), dismissed workers of the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (3) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

（５）the employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the target workplace pertaining to the hiring under (3) and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

（６）the employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of payment of wages to the persons pertaining to the hiring under (3);

ロthe employer is one that, among the employers falling under (a), falls under all of the following on the day on which one year and six months elapse counting from the completion date:

（１）the employer is the employer of a target workplace that the Director of the Okinawa Labor Bureau finds to have an especially excellent state of retention of young job seekers in Okinawa and other workers;

（２）the employer is the employer of a target workplace that, for at least the proportion determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau of the young job seekers in Okinawa hired during the target period, employs them as workers who conclude a labor contract with no fixed term and whose prescribed weekly working hours are the same as the prescribed weekly working hours of workers with a standard employment status employed at the same place of business, and applies to them the same wage system as that of workers with a standard employment status, established as provided in a collective agreement, rules of employment or any other equivalent;

二the amount specified in the relevant provision according to the categories of employers set out in (a) and (b) below.

イan employer falling under item (i), (a): an amount equal to 1/4 (1/3 for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) of an amount equivalent to the amount of wages paid, for the one-year period counting from the completion date, to the young job seekers in Okinawa hired during the target period (including, for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer, new graduates under 35 years of age residing within the area of Okinawa Prefecture) (where that 1/4 (or 1/3) amount exceeds 1,200,000 yen, 1,200,000 yen);

ロan employer falling under item (i), (b): an amount equal to 1/3 (1/2 for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) of an amount equivalent to the amount of wages paid, for the one-year period counting from the day on which one year has elapsed counting from the completion date, to the young job seekers in Okinawa hired during the target period (where that 1/3 (or 1/2) amount exceeds 1,200,000 yen, 1,200,000 yen).