The basic allowance is to be paid pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection, where an insured person who becomes unemployed has been insured for a total period of 12 months or more during the two-year period preceding the day of separation from service, pursuant to the provisions of the following Article (for insured persons who were unable to receive payment of wages for 30 or more consecutive days during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, during the period of two years added to the number of days for which they were unable to receive payment of wages due to those reasons (where the aggregate period exceeds four years, four years); referred to as the "period for calculation" in Article 17, paragraph (1)).
With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to persons separated from service for specific reasons and persons who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2) (excluding persons who come to have the qualification to receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph), the phrase "two-year period" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "one-year period", the phrase "period of two years" with "period of one year", and the term "12 months" with "six months".
The persons separated from service for specific reasons set forth in the preceding paragraph are persons who have been separated from service, other than those who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2), and who are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as persons whose separation from service was due to the expiration of the term of a labor contract with a fixed term without the labor contract being renewed (limited to the case where no agreement on the renewal was reached even though the person wished for the renewal) or other unavoidable reasons.
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(Recipient Qualification for Basic Allowance)
The basic allowance is to be paid pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection, where an insured person who becomes unemployed has been insured for a total period of 12 months or more during the…
基本手当は、被保険者が失業した場合において、離職の日以前二年間（当該期間に疾病、負傷その他厚生労働省令で定める理由により引き続き三十日以上賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた被保険者については、当該理由により賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた日数を二年に加算した期間（その期間が四年を超えるときは、四年間）。第十七条…
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With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to persons separated from service for specific reasons and persons who fall under any of the items of Article 23…
特定理由離職者及び第二十三条第二項各号のいずれかに該当する者（前項の規定により基本手当の支給を受けることができる資格を有することとなる者を除く。）に対する前項の規定の適用については、同項中「二年間」とあるのは「一年間」と、「二年に」とあるのは「一年に」と、「十二箇月」とあるのは「六箇月」とする。
Open this provision(Insured Period)
Each period (limited to the periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages) within the overall insured period when the person was an insured person…
被保険者期間は、被保険者であつた期間のうち、当該被保険者でなくなつた日又は各月においてその日に応当し、かつ、当該被保険者であつた期間内にある日（その日に応当する日がない月においては、その月の末日。以下この項において「喪失応当日」という。）の各前日から各前月の喪失応当日までさかのぼつた各期間（賃金の支払の基礎となつた日…
Open this provision(Daily Amount of Wages)
The daily amount of wages is to be the amount obtained by dividing by 180 the total amount of wages (excluding wages paid temporarily and wages paid for each period exceeding three months; the same…
賃金日額は、算定対象期間において第十四条（第一項ただし書を除く。）の規定により被保険者期間として計算された最後の六箇月間に支払われた賃金（臨時に支払われる賃金及び三箇月を超える期間ごとに支払われる賃金を除く。次項、第六節及び次章において同じ。）の総額を百八十で除して得た額とする。
Open this provisionThe specific qualified recipients set forth in the preceding paragraph are qualified recipients who fall under either of the following items…
前項の特定受給資格者とは、次の各号のいずれかに該当する受給資格者（前条第二項に規定する受給資格者を除く。）をいう。
Open this provisioninsured person
「被保険者」
A worker employed in a covered business (適用事業), other than the persons listed in the items of Article 6.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
separation from service
「離職」
The ending of an insured person's employment relationship with their employer.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
unemployment
「失業」
The state of an insured person (被保険者) who has separated from service and, though willing and able to work, cannot find a job.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
wage
「賃金」
Everything an employer pays a worker in return for work, whatever it is called — wages, salary, allowances, bonuses — except payments in something other than money that fall outside the range a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
period for calculationmachine translation
「算定対象期間」
The two years before the day of separation from service (lengthened by the days a person could not be paid for 30 days or more in a row because of illness, injury or another reason a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, up to four years in all), in which the insured period (被保険者期間) for the basic allowance (基本手当) is counted; Article 17, paragraph (1) uses it to work out the daily amount of wages (賃金日額).
Short name set inArticle 13, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 17, paragraph (1)