The Director-General of the main employment security bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Director-General"), an internal bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare responsible for employment placement, career guidance, and other employment stability-related matters (the same applies in Article 9), operates under the direction and supervision of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. The Director-General oversees and directs prefectural Labour Bureau Chiefs in matters related to the implementation of this law; The Director-General is also responsible for establishing standards for supervision of public employment security offices, planning and implementing measures to meet the labor needs of industries, planning and implementing unemployment countermeasures, determining the primary labor supplies and demanding zones to balance labor supply and demand, planning and implementing career guidance, managing other necessary tasks related to the implementation of this law, and directing and supervising the staff under their jurisdiction.

The prefectural labor directors, under the direction and supervision of the Director-General of the main employment security bureau, oversee operations concerning communication and coordination in the functions operations of public employment security offices, and direct and supervise personnel under their jurisdiction and the chiefs of public employment security offices. They also direct and supervise their subordinate staff and the heads of public employment security officers with respect to matters related to the enforcement of this Act.

①A public employment security office is an agency that serves the public free of charge, providing employment placement, vocational guidance, employment insurance, and performing other operations that need to be performed to accomplish the purpose of this Act.

②The chiefs of public employment security offices, under the direction and supervision of the prefectural labor directors, oversee the administrative functions of their respective public employment security offices, and direct and supervise personnel under their jurisdiction.

In order to ensure that the operations of public employment security offices and other employment security agencies are carried out effectively, personnel who exclusively engage in operations that implement this Act at the main employment security bureau, prefectural labor offices, or public employment security offices must be persons who have the qualifications and experience that the National Personnel Authority prescribes.

①An employment facilitation advisor is assigned at each public employment security office.

②An Employment Facilitation Advisor is to provide vocational guidance based on specialized knowledge, primarily to persons who have received directives under Article 26, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act on Stabilization of Employment of Elderly Persons (Act No. 68 of 1971).

③In addition to what is provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare establishes the necessary particulars related to employment facilitation advisors.

The public employment security office is obligated to cooperate in the tasks related to the employment of mariners, which are carried out by the District Transport Bureau Chiefs (including the Chiefs of the Maritime Traffic Control Divisions).

①The municipal mayor having jurisdiction over an area designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as one in which it is found difficult to file applications for job openings or job-seeking applications directly with a public employment security office due to inconvenient access (hereinafter referred to as a "designated area" in this paragraph) carries out the following:

②The chief of the relevant public employment security office may issue the necessary instructions to the mayor of a municipality on finding that this is particularly necessary in connection with the affairs referred to in the preceding paragraph.

③The mayor of a municipality must not collect actual costs or any other fee from a job poster or job seeker for the affairs referred to in paragraph (1), under any name.

④The affairs to be conducted by municipalities pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) are type-1 statutory entrusted functions as provided in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947).

①The Director-General of the main employment security bureau must establish the forms for reporting on operations that prefectural labor offices and public employment securities offices are to do pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

②Prefectural labor offices or public employment security offices must report on their operations by the forms referred to in the preceding paragraph.

To facilitate the appropriate and smooth adjustment of workforce supply and demand, the Director-General of the main employment security bureau must endeavor to collect information on the status of employment and unemployment; this is based on surveys, reports, and other related data concerning workforce supply and demand from prefectural labor bureaus and public employment security offices. They must also endeavor to implement necessary measures, such as organizing, analyzing, and publicizing this information.

Based on the results of investigations and research related to employment, the Director-General of the main employment security bureau must establish standard job titles to be commonly used in employment placement services, worker recruitment, and worker supply services, prepare job descriptions and occupational classification tables, and endeavor to put these into widespread use.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may establish the necessary standards for implementing employment placement and vocational guidance for individuals with physical or mental disabilities, those seeking to enter a new profession, middle-aged and older unemployed persons, and others who require special considerations in terms of gaining employment.

①As much as possible, a public employment security office must endeavor to refer job seekers to positions that do not necessitate a change of domicile or residence at the time of employment.

②If a public employment security office cannot match a job seeker with an employment opportunity that aligns with their desires and abilities within its jurisdiction, or if it cannot provide a job poster with suitable job seekers or the desired number of job seekers, it is to expand its employment placement activities to cover a wider geographical area.

③Neighboring public employment security offices must endeavor to cooperate with one another as much as possible to carry out the employment placement activities covering a wide geographical area which are referred to in the preceding paragraph.

④Necessary particulars related to the employment placement activities covering a wide geographical area which are referred to in paragraph (2) are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①In addition to duties performed based on the provisions of other Acts, a public employment security office, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, is to undertake the necessary development of job openings and job searches in order to provide job seekers with opportunities to obtain jobs suited to their abilities, and to enable job posters to secure the workforce they require.

②A public employment security office may request information and other necessary communication and cooperation from local public entities, employer organizations, labor unions, and other relevant parties in relation to the development of job openings and job searches under the preceding paragraph.