As the programs listed in Article 63, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ix) of the Act, programs of providing employers, workers, etc. with information and materials on the development and improvement of the vocational abilities of workers, advice and guidance, and other technical assistance relating to the voluntary development and improvement of vocational abilities in line with workers' vocational life planning are to be carried out.

As the programs listed in Article 63, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act, the establishment and operation of public human resources development facilities (including lodging facilities for persons taking vocational training conducted by public human resources development facilities; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article) and the Polytechnic University (including lodging facilities for persons taking instructor training or vocational training conducted by the Polytechnic University; the same applies in Article 128), and the conduct of the vocational training prescribed in the proviso to Article 15-7, paragraph (1) of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act, are to be carried out.

①The public human resources development facilities established or operated pursuant to Article 63, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act are to be Polytechnic Junior Colleges, Polytechnic Colleges and Vocational Ability Development Promotion Centers.

②The standards for the establishment or operation of the public human resources development facilities referred to in the preceding paragraph are as provided in the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act and other related laws and regulations.

The standards for the establishment or operation of the Polytechnic University are as provided in the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act and other related laws and regulations.

As the programs listed in Article 63, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act, workplace adaptation training and care work courses are to be carried out.

Workplace adaptation training is to be conducted, by commissioning employers that fall under each of the following items, for qualified recipients, elderly qualified recipients or specially qualified recipients whom the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds it appropriate to have undergo workplace adaptation training in order to facilitate their re-employment:

Care work courses are to be conducted in order to have care workers prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Improvement of Employment Management and Other Matters for Care Workers (Act No. 63 of 1992), or persons intending to become care workers, acquire the necessary knowledge and skills.

As the programs listed in Article 63, paragraph (1), items (i), (vii) and (ix) of the Act, the subsidy for Central Vocational Ability Development Association expenses and the subsidy for prefectural vocational ability development association expenses are to be granted.

The subsidy for Central Vocational Ability Development Association expenses is to be granted to the Central Vocational Ability Development Association, for the expenses required for the work that the Central Vocational Ability Development Association performs under Article 55 of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act, in an amount calculated in accordance with the standards determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The subsidy for prefectural vocational ability development association expenses is to be granted, in an amount calculated in accordance with the standards determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, to a prefecture that subsidizes the expenses required for the affairs that a prefectural vocational ability development association conducts based on the provisions of Article 82 of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act.

The subsidy for designated testing agency expenses is to be granted as the programs listed in Article 63, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Act.

The subsidy for designated testing agency expenses is to be granted, for those expenses, in an amount calculated in accordance with the standards determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, to a designated testing agency that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has conduct the affairs relating to trade skill test examinations based on the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act and for which it is necessary to provide subsidies for the expenses required for those affairs.

The programs specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 63, paragraph (1), item (ix) of the Act are, in addition to those provided for in Articles 124, 125-2, 134, 140 and 140-2, as follows:

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 125, paragraph (2), the human resources development support grant is not to be paid to the State, etc.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 122, paragraph (1) and Article 125, paragraph (2) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "provisions on employment-related grants"), the authorized training grant for wide-area organizations and the human resources development support grant (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "employment-related grants") are not to be paid to an employer, or an employers' organization or a federation thereof, whose payment status of labor insurance premiums is extremely inappropriate, or that has, within the past five years, received or attempted to receive, by deception or other wrongful acts, an employment adjustment grant or any other benefit paid under the provisions of Chapter IV of the Act.

②Notwithstanding the provisions on employment-related grants, if an officer, etc. (limited to a person who was involved in the deception or other wrongful act) of an employer, or an employers' organization or a federation thereof, that has, within the past five years, received or attempted to receive, by deception or other wrongful acts, an employment adjustment grant or any other benefit paid under the provisions of Chapter IV of the Act is an officer, etc. of an employer or an employers' organization or a federation thereof, employment-related grants are not to be paid to that employer or employers' organization or federation thereof.

③Notwithstanding the provisions on employment-related grants, if, within the past five years, an agent, etc. or a training institution concerning the payment of an employment adjustment grant or any other benefit paid under the provisions of Chapter IV of the Act has made a false notification, report, certificate, etc., and an employer or an employers' organization or a federation thereof has thereby received or attempted to receive that benefit, and that agent, etc. or training institution is involved in employment-related grants, those employment-related grants are not to be paid to the employer or employers' organization or federation thereof.