一providing the employers, etc. prescribed in Article 13 of the Human Resources Development Promotion Act (Act No. 64 of 1969) and persons engaged in activities for the promotion of vocational training, with the aid and assistance necessary for the promotion of vocational training based on the plan prescribed in Article 11 of the same Act, authorized vocational training prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (3) of the same Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-2, paragraph (2) of the same Act) (referred to as "authorized vocational training" in item (v)) or other vocational training provided by the employers etc., and providing prefectures that provide the aid and assistance necessary for the promotion of the vocational training with subsidies for the whole or a part of the expenses required;

二establishing or operating public human resources development facilities (including lodging facilities for persons taking vocational training conducted by public human resources development facilities; hereinafter the same applies in this item) or the Polytechnic University (including lodging facilities for persons taking instructor training or vocational training conducted by the Polytechnic University), conducting the vocational training prescribed in the proviso of Article 15-7, paragraph (1) of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act or providing prefectures establishing or operating public human resources development facilities with subsidies for the whole or a part of the expenses required;

三implementing training courses for acquiring skills and knowledge necessary for facilitating re-employment (referred to as "vocational courses" in item (v)) and training for adapting to the work environment for job applicants and persons planning to retire;

四providing necessary aid and assistance for employers who grant the paid educational training leave prescribed in Article 10-4, paragraph (2) of the Human Resources Development Promotion Act;

五providing workers who take vocational training (limited to training conducted by public human resources development facilities or the Polytechnic University) or a vocational course, with the necessary grant to facilitate or promote the taking of the vocational training or vocational course and providing necessary aid for employers (limited to those who pay workers the wages normally payable for prescribed working hours, for the period during which the workers take vocational training) who allow the workers they employ to take vocational training based on the plan prescribed in Article 11 of the Human Resources Development Promotion Act, authorized vocational training, or other vocational training;

六providing necessary assistance to employers who, pursuant to the provisions of Article 10-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act, secure opportunities for career consulting (meaning the career consulting prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the same Act; hereinafter the same applies in this item), and securing opportunities for career consulting for workers;

七bearing the expenses necessary for the implementation of the trade skill test, providing the aid necessary for the promotion of the trade skill test for corporations and other organizations that conduct the trade skill test and providing prefectures that provide the aid and assistance necessary for the promotion of the trade skill test with subsidies for the whole or a part of the expenses required; and

八implementing, among the programs prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons pertaining to an approved regional plan for securing employment opportunities for elderly persons, those related to the development and improvement of workers' abilities; and

九beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, other programs necessary for the development and improvement of workers' abilities, which are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.