①Vocational rehabilitation measures must be implemented comprehensively and effectively, in accordance with the type and degree of impairment of each of person with a disability, and in keeping with conditions such as their wishes, aptitudes, and work experience.

②Vocational rehabilitation measures are to be implemented, as necessary, in appropriate coordination with measures for medical and social rehabilitation.

In order to facilitate the employment of persons with disabilities, public employment security offices are to do things such as collecting information on job searches by persons with disabilities, providing that information to employers, and recommending employers to hire persons with disabilities, and are to endeavor to find job openings of a content that is suited to the abilities of persons with disabilities.

①On finding that it is necessary to do so in order to place a person with a disability in a job that is suited to their abilities, a public employment security office is to give guidance to recruiting employers on a physical or mental requirement or other such requirement in a job opening.

②If asked to do so by a recruiting employer when providing job placement services for a person with a disability, a public employment security office is to provide the recruiting employer with materials it has concerning the vocational abilities of that person.

In order to enable persons with disabilities to find jobs that are suited to their abilities, a public employment security office is to take the necessary measures, including implementing aptitude tests, providing recruitment information, and giving vocational guidance adapted to persons with disabilities.

①For persons with disabilities for whom a public employment security office finds it to be necessary to implement the aptitude tests, give vocational guidance, and take other measures referred to in the preceding Article based on particularly specialized knowledge and techniques, that public employment security office is to take those measures in close cooperation with a vocational center for persons with disabilities provided for in Article 19, paragraph (1), or is to make arrangements for the relevant persons with disabilities to have those measures taken for them at such a vocational center for persons with disabilities.

②When a public employment security office and a vocational center for persons with disabilities provided for in Article 19, paragraph (1) receive from a person who has received the employment selection support provided for in Article 5, paragraph (13) of the Act on Providing Comprehensive Support for the Daily Life and Life in Society of Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 2005) the results referred to in that paragraph, they are to conduct the aptitude tests, vocational guidance, etc. referred to in the preceding Article and the preceding paragraph, taking those results into consideration.

①If a prefecture finds it to be necessary to do so, it is to implement adaptive training for job-seekers with disabilities (but only for persons with physical disabilities, persons with intellectual disabilities, or persons with mental disabilities; the same applies in the following Article and Article 15, paragraph (2)) for the purpose of making it easier for them to adapt to the environment associated with operations that are suited to their abilities.

②A prefecture is to implement adaptive training by entrusting this to an employer that carries out operations as provided in the preceding paragraph in an environment that is found to be standard.

If a public employment security office finds it to be necessary to do so in order to facilitate the employment of a person with a disability, it is to arrange for that person to undergo adaptive training.

①Adaptive training is to be free of charge.

②A prefecture may pay an allowance to a person with a disability who undergoes adaptive training, pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Measures, Stabilization of Employment of Employees, and Enrichment of Their Working Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966).

Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding three Articles, Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare provides for a training period and other criteria for adaptive training.

If a public employment security office finds it to be necessary to do so in order to stabilize employment for a person with a disability, it may give a person with a disability who has found employment through the office's job placement services and other persons with disabilities who are employed by an employer the advice or guidance they need to adapt to the work environment.

If a public employment security office finds it to be necessary to do so in order to facilitate the employment of a person with a disability and stabilize employment for that person, it may give a person who employs or seeks to employ a person with a disability advice or guidance as to hiring, job assignment, work assistance tools, work equipment or environment, or other technical matters involved in the employment of persons with disabilities (referred to as "personnel management matters concerning persons with disabilities" in the following Section).

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to carry out operations for establishing and managing the following facilities (hereinafter referred to as "vocational centers for persons with disabilities") to facilitate the independence of persons with disabilities in their working lives:

②The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to have the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers (hereinafter referred to as "JEED") carry out all or part of the operations provided for in the preceding paragraph.

The National Institute of Vocational Rehabilitation provides the following services: