Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees

The officers and employees or former officers and employees of the supervising and support organization must not divulge or misappropriate any confidential information which they camecome to know of in connection with their workoperations, without reasonable grounds.

Beyond what is provided forstated in this Section, the licensing procedures for the supervising organizations and other necessary mattersparticulars relating to implementation of this Section are provided for by Orderin order of the competent ministryministries.

A person engaging in the supervising and support organization or other person conducting supervision and support (referred to as "training supervisor and supporter" in Article 48, paragraph (1)) or its officersofficer or employeesemployee (referred to as "training supervisorssupervisor and supporter, etc." in the following Article) must not force the technical intern traineesskill development employees to engage in technical intern training employment for skill development against their will through the use of assault, intimidation, confinement, or any other means which unfairly restrict the mental or physical freedom of the technical intern traineeskill development employee.

The training supervisorssupervisor and supporter, etc., must not enter into a an employment-for-skill-development contract that stipulates penalties for or predetermines compensations for damage onliquidated damages in the non-performanceevent of a contract regarding technical intern training,non-performance with the technical intern traineesskill development employees, etc. (meaning technical intern traineesskill development employees or persons foreign nationals who wishseek to become technical intern traineesthe subject of employment for skill development; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), their spouses, their lineal relatives, their relatives cohabiting with the technical intern traineesskill development employees, etc., or any other person who has a close personal relationship with the technical intern traineesskill development employees, etc. in their social lives.

The training supervisorssupervisor and supporter, etc., must not have a technical intern traineeskill development employee, etc., enter into a savings contract incidental to the contract for technical intern training or employment for skill development nor enter into a contract assuming control of the savings ofwith the technical intern traineeskill development employee, etc.

A An implementing organization for employment for skill development, or other person conducting technical intern training, trainingseeking to provide employment for skill development, or supervisor and supporter, or their officer or employee thereof (referred to as "persons associated with technical intern trainingemployment for skill development" in the following paragraph) must not retain the passportpassports (meaning the passports as prescribedprovided for in the provisions of Article 2, item (v) of the Immigration Control Act; the same applies in Article 111, item (v)) or residence cardcards (meaning the residence cards as prescribedprovided for in the provisions of Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control Act; the same applies in Article 111,the same item (v))) of a technical intern traineeskill development employees, etc.

Persons associated with technical intern training employment for skill development must not improperlyunreasonably restrict the freedom of the technical intern traineesskill development employees, etc., to go out, or otherwise impose unfair restrictions on their freedom in their personal lives.

If an implementing organization for employment for skill development, supervising and support organization, or officers or employees thereof (referred to as "implementing organization, etc." in the following paragraph) is in violation of the provisions of this Act or any order based thereon, the technical intern traineeskill development employee may report that fact to the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The implementing organization for employment for skill development, etc., must not suspend the technical intern training employment for skill development for the technical intern traineeskill development employee or subject that traineeemployee to other disadvantageous treatment, due to the technical intern traineeskill development employee having given the report provided for in the preceding paragraph.

If it is found necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter, the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide the implementing organization organizations for employment for skill development with the necessary guidance or advice to secure the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees, and the competent ministerministers may provide the supervising organization with the necessary guidance or advice to secure the proper implementation of technical intern training and protection of the technical intern traineessupport organizations with the same.

The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must provide the necessary information, advice, or other assistance in response to a consultationconsultations from a technical intern traineeskill development employees for the purpose of the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees.

If an implementing organization for employment for skill development or supervising and support organization intendsseeks to filesubmit a notification or notice under Article 19, paragraphparagraphs (1) or Article 33, paragraph(1), a noticethrough (4) or a notification under Article 1933, paragraph (2),1) or a notification of discontinuation or suspension of business under Article 34, paragraph (1), it must communicate and coordinate with other implementing organizations for employment for skill development, supervising and support organizations, or other relevant persons and must take other necessary measures to ensure that the technical intern traineesskill development employees relevant to the implementing organization organizations for employment for skill development or the supervising organization and support organizations who wish to continue with the technical intern trainingemployment for skill development are able to do so.

If it is found necessary for implementation A supervising and support organization must, when the accreditation of the measures prescribed in the provisions of employment for skill development for a foreign national who is the preceding paragraph or subject of supervising-organization-type employment for any other purpose, the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and skill development and for whom it conducts supervision and support is revoked pursuant to the Ministerprovision of Health, Labour Article 16, paragraph (1), communicate and Welfare may give the necessary guidance coordinate with other implementing organizations for employment for skill development or supervising and advice to the support organizations or other relevant persons provided for in item (i), and and take other necessary measures to ensure that the competent ministerforeign national may give newly become the necessary advice and guidance to subject of employment for skill development when the persons provided for in item (ii):foreign national wishes to do so.

If it is found necessary for smooth implementation of the measures provided for in Article 8-4, paragraph (5) or the preceding two paragraphs, or for any other purpose, the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may give the necessary guidance and advice to the persons stated in item (i), and the competent ministers may give the necessary guidance and advice to the persons stated in item (ii):

implementing organizations for employment for skill development and other relevant persons (except for relevant persons of supervising and support organizations); or

supervising and support organizations, persons relevant to those organizations, and other relevant persons (except for the persons stated in the preceding item).

The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfarecompetent ministers must endeavor to promote technical intern trainingemployment-for-skill-development evaluation examinations, in order to ensure the smooth evaluation of skills, etc., by implementing organizations for employment for skill development.

The competent ministers must establish the standards for technical intern trainingemployment-for-skill-development evaluation examinations by order ofprovided for in the competent ministryministries, in order to ensure that fair technical intern trainingemployment for-skill-development evaluation examinations are conducted.

If the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare find it to be necessary for the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of technical intern traineesskill development employees, they may request necessary cooperation in relation to the technical intern training employment for skill development regarding the business in the specific industryindividual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields from the minister who has head of a relevant administrative organ with jurisdiction over that industry individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields (referred to as "minister with jurisdiction over the businessthe "head of a field-specific administrative organ" in paragraph (1) of the following Article).

The minister with jurisdiction over the businesshead of a field-specific administrative organ may organize a council composed of that ministerhead and implementing organizations for employment for skill development or supervising and support organizations related to the specific industries individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields under the jurisdiction of the ministerhead (hereinafter referred to as "businessfield-specific council" in this Article).

The businessfield-specific council may add , when it deems necessary, appoint the OTITESDO or other persons as members if the business council finsa this necessaryit considers necessary as its members.

The businessA field-specific council is to share useful information for the purpose of proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of technical intern traineesthe skill development employees, through mutual communication among its members, in order to work towardstoward close cooperation among its members;, and is to discuss initiatives to contribute to the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees in light of the actual conditions of the businessindividual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields.

Any personpersons who performsperform or previously performed the administrative affairs of the businessfield-specific council must not divulge or misappropriate any confidential information which they came to know of in connection with thosethe administrative affairs, without reasonable grounds.

Beyond what is provided forstated in the preceding paragraphs, any other necessary matters in relationparticulars relating to the organization and management of the businessfield-specific council are established by the businessfield-specific council.

If the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare foundfind it to be necessary for the purpose of the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees, they may provide information to the heads of the relevant administrative organs to contribute with information that contributes to the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees.

If the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare find that there are measures based on the provisions of other laws that may be usedimplemented for the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees, and that those measures should need to be implemented promptly for the purpose of the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees, they may make a request todemand that the ministerministers with jurisdiction over the administrative affairs for prompt relating to the implementation of those measures promptly implement those measures.

National government agencies with jurisdiction over the administrative affairs relating to technical intern trainingemployment for skill development within a region may organize a council made up of those agencies, local government agencies, and other relevant agencies (hereinafter referred to as a "regional council" in this Article).

A regional council is to share useful information for the purpose of the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees, through mutual communication among its members, in order to work toward close cooperation among its members;, and is to discuss initiatives to contribute to the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees in light of the actual conditions of the region.