Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a public employment security office is to provide job seekers and job posters with information about the particulars provided in Article 32-16, paragraph (3) concerning specified local public entities or employment placement service providers (excluding one that has been issued an order under Article 32-9, paragraph (2) or any other person prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person whose employment placement services operations are inappropriate for public employment security offices to provide information about it to job seekers or job posters; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), information about the number of persons who were hired at the referral of specified local public entities or employment placement service providers and had their moving expenses paid under Article 58 of the Employment Insurance Act, and information about employment placement services operations.

A public employment security office is to make arrangements for job seekers to undergo vocational training conducted by public facilities for career skills development (including that conducted by the Polytechnic University).

①In order to maintain a neutral position regarding labor disputes, a public employment security office must not refer a job seeker to a place of business where there is an ongoing strike or lock-out.

②Other than in the case as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if a labor relations commission notifies a public employment security office that a dispute which is likely to develop into a strike or lock-out has arisen at a place of business, and that the unrestricted referral of job seekers would impede the settlement of the dispute, the public employment security office must not refer job seekers to that place of business; provided, however, that this does not apply referring workers to the extent needed for the place of business to maintain the number of workers normally employed prior to the occurrence of the dispute.

Procedures for employment placement and other necessary particulars related to employment placement are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

A public employment security office must provide vocational guidance to persons with physical or mental disabilities, new job seekers, and others in need of special guidance with regard to obtaining employment.

When finding it to be necessary to do so, a public employment security office may conduct aptitude testing for persons receiving vocational guidance.

A public employment security office may request necessary cooperation from a public facility for career skills development and other persons concerned if it finds that it is necessary to provide persons receiving vocational guidance with information, consultations, or any other assistance related to the vocational training conducted by a public facility for career skills development (including that conducted by the Polytechnic University).

Vocational guidance methods and other necessary particulars related to vocational guidance are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①In connection with employment placement by a school as provided in Article 1 of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) (hereinafter referred to as a "school") for its students or pupils, or persons who have graduated from or left that school (excluding those prescribed by Cabinet Order; hereinafter referred to as a "student, pupil, etc."), public employment security offices must cooperate with the school to provide employment information and the results of occupational surveys and research to the students, pupils, etc. They must also offer vocational guidance, and, through communication among public employment security offices, endeavor to uncover as many job openings as deemed appropriate to refer students, pupils, etc., and endeavor to match them with jobs suited to their abilities.

②A public employment security office must cooperate in the vocational guidance that a school provides to its students and pupils.

③To effectively and efficiently provide vocational guidance to students, pupils, etc., a public employment security office is to cooperate with schools and other relevant parties to offer opportunities for students to experience employment, to consult with career consultants as provided for in Article 30-3 of the Human Resources Development Promotion Act (Act No. 64 of 1969), and to implement other necessary measures to deepen the students' or pupils' interest and understanding of career choices.

①When finding it to be necessary to do so in order to smoothly carry out employment placement for current and former students and pupils, the chief of a public employment security office may assign a part of the operations of a public employment security office to the head of a school, with the consent, or at the request, of the head of that school.

②The operations that the chief of a public employment security office may assign to the head of a school pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are limited to the following:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of the main clause of paragraph (1) of Article 5-6 and the main clause of paragraph (1) of Article 5-7, the head of a school that has been assigned part of the operations of a public employment security office pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "head of a school undertaking operations") may reject applications to post job openings or job-seeking applications for jobs that are not suitable for the school's curriculum.

④Upon consultation with the chief of the relevant public employment security office, the head of a school undertaking operations may appoint a person to be responsible for employment security from among the personnel of the school, and have that person take charge of the operations provided for in the items of paragraph (2) and communicate with the relevant public employment security office.

⑤The chief of a public employment security office may provide the head of a school undertaking operations with employment information, results of surveys and research related to employment, and other assistance in executing the operations referred to in the items of paragraph (2) that are carried out by the head of that school; moreover, the chief may also provide the head of that school with financial aid when finding it to be necessary.

⑥In the performance of the operations being undertaken, the head of a school undertaking operations must comply with the standards established by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consultation with the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

⑦If the head of a school undertaking operations violates a law, regulation, or the standards referred to in the preceding paragraph, the chief of the relevant public employment security office may suspend the operations provided for in the items of paragraph (2) that are being undertaken by the head of that school.

⑧The provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply to the case where the head of a school provides free employment placement services based on the provisions of Article 33-2.

The methods of communication, assistance, and cooperation between public employment security offices and schools, and other necessary particulars related to employment placement for students, pupils, etc. are determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.