①Benefits for unemployment, etc. are to consist of job applicant benefits, employment promotion benefits, educational training benefits and continuous employment benefits.

②The job applicant benefits are to consist of the following:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the job applicant benefits for the elderly insured persons prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) are to be the job applicant benefits for the elderly, the job applicant benefits for specially insured persons in short-term employment prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1), are to be a special lump sum payment, and the job applicant benefits for the insured day workers prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) are to be the job applicant benefits for day workers.

④The employment promotion benefits are to consist of the following:

⑤The educational training benefits are to consist of the following:

⑥The continuous employment benefits are to consist of the following:

A person who receives payment of job applicant benefits must endeavor to find employment by carrying out job-seeking activities sincerely and earnestly, while endeavoring to develop and improve their vocational ability as necessary.

①When a person able to receive payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. has died and part of the benefits remains unpaid, the person's spouse (including a person in a de facto marital relationship with the person, where the marriage has not been registered), children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and brothers or sisters, who had shared a livelihood with the person at the time of that person's death, may demand payment of the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. in their own names.

②The order of priority in which persons should receive the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is to be the order as prescribed in the same paragraph.

③If there are two or more persons of the same rank in the order of priority to receive the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), a demand made by any one of them is deemed to have been made on behalf of all of them for the total amount claimable, and payment made to one of them is be deemed to have been made to all of them.

①In the case where a person has received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. by deception or other wrongful acts, the government may order the person to return the whole or a part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. paid, and may, in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, order the person to pay the amount not exceeding an amount equivalent to twice the benefits that were received through deception or other wrongful acts.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if benefits for unemployment, etc. were paid due to a false notification, report or certification by the employer, employment placement service provider, etc. (meaning an employment placement agency prescribed in Article 2 of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966) or a person who conducts vocational guidance (limited to guidance conducted in accordance with the aptitude, vocational experiences, and other actual circumstances of a person seeking employment) prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947) in the course of trade (excluding Public Employment Security Offices and other employment security agencies); the same applies hereinafter), person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc. (meaning a person who engages in the provision of recruitment information, etc. prescribed in paragraph (6) of the same Article in the course of trade, and limited to a person who performs the act listed in item (iii) of that paragraph (limited to cases where it is performed at the request of a person seeking to become a worker); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 76, paragraph (2)), or practitioner of specified educational training (meaning a person who conducts educational training specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 60-2, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter), the government may order the employer, employment placement service provider, etc., person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc., or practitioner of specified educational training to return the benefits for unemployment, etc., or pay an amount of money, as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, jointly and severally with the person who received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc.

③The provisions of Article 27 and Article 41, paragraph (2) of the Premiums Collection Act apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the person concerned has failed to pay an amount of money ordered to be returned or paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

The right to receive benefits for unemployment, etc. may not be transferred nor offered as a security nor be subject to attachment.

Taxes and other public charges may not be imposed based on the money received as payment for benefits for unemployment, etc.

①The 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)).

②With 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".

③The 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.

①Each 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, counted backwards from the day on which the person ceased to be an insured person or from the day before each day that corresponds to that day in each month and is within the overall insured period (for months that do not have a day corresponding to that day, the last day of the month; hereinafter referred to as the "substitute corresponding day" in this paragraph), to the substitute corresponding day in each previous month is calculated as a full month, and other periods are not to be included in the overall insured period; provided, however, that when the number of days in the period from the day on which the person became an insured person, to the day before the first substitute corresponding day thereafter, is 15 days or more and the number of days in the period based on which payment of wages was made is 11 days or more, the period is calculated as an insured period of half a month.

②The periods listed in each of the following items are not to be included when calculating the period in which the person was an insured person prescribed in the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph:

③With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) in the case where the insured period calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is less than 12 months (six months, in the case where the terms are replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article), the phrase "periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages or with 80 or more hours as basis of the payment of wages", and the phrase "is 11 days or more" with "is 11 days or more or the number of hours in the period based on which payment of wages was made is 80 hours or more".

①The basic allowance is be paid for the days on which a person who has recipient qualifications (hereinafter referred to as a "qualified recipient" except for the following Section to Section 4) is unemployed (limited to those days for which the recognition of their unemployment has been obtained; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection).

②A qualified recipient who seeks to obtain the recognition of unemployment set forth in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "recognition of unemployment" in this Subsection) must, after separation from service, make an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office and apply for employment as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③The recognition of unemployment is to be given by the Public Employment Security Office to which a qualified recipient has applied for employment, once every four weeks calculated from the day on which the person first made an appearance after separation from service, with regard to each day of the immediately preceding 28 days; provided, however, that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may specify differently with regard to the recognition of unemployment for qualified recipients who take public vocational training, etc. designated by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (meaning vocational training (including training conducted by the Polytechnic University) conducted by Public Human Resources Development Centers established by the State, prefectures or municipalities or the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers, accredited vocational training prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Act on Support for the Employment of Specified Job Seekers through Implementation of Vocational Training, etc. (Act No. 47 of 2011) (excluding that specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), and other training or courses given pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations, for assisting unemployed persons in adapting to the working environment or for having them acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for obtaining employment and that are specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter) and for other qualified recipients specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, if a qualified recipient falls under any of the following items, the recipient may obtain the recognition of unemployment by submitting a certificate in which the reason that they were unable to make an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office is stated, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:

⑤The recognition of unemployment is to be given by confirming that the qualified recipient has carried out job-seeking activities, such as undergoing an interview with a job offerer, having been referred to employment by or having received vocational guidance from the Public Employment Security Office and other employment security agencies or employment placement service providers, etc., as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The daily amount of the basic allowance is to be an amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages by 50 percent (for daily amount of wages of 2,460 yen or more and less than 4,920 yen (when the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount), 80 percent; and for daily amount of wages of 4,920 yen or more and 12,090 yen or less (when the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount), the percentage specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, gradually decreasing within the range of 80 percent to 50 percent, in accordance with the increase in the daily amount of wages).

②With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to qualified recipients who are 60 years old or older and under 65 years old on the day of separation from service pertaining to their recipient qualification, the term "50 percent" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "45 percent" and the phrase "4,920 yen or more and 12,090 yen or less" is deemed to be replaced with "4,920 yen or more and 10,880 yen or less."

①The 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 applies in the following paragraph, Section 6 and the following Chapter) paid during the last six months in the period for calculation that have been counted as the insured period under the provisions of Article 14 (excluding the proviso of paragraph (1)).

②In the case where the amount calculated under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is less than the amount listed in each of the following items, the daily amount of wages is to be the amount listed in the respective items, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph:

③When it is difficult to calculate the daily amount of wages pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs or when it is found inappropriate to consider the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs to be the daily amount of wages, the amount calculated as specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to be the daily amount of wages.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, in the case where the daily amount of wages calculated under these provisions is less than the amount listed in item (i), the amount listed therein, and in the case where such daily amount of wages exceeds the amount listed in item (ii), the amount listed therein, is to be the daily amount of wages, respectively:

①When the average earnings (meaning the average amount earned per worker calculated as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, based on the average regular earnings for workers indicated in the Monthly Labor Statistics compiled by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the same applies hereinafter) for a fiscal year (meaning April 1 to March 31 of the following year, the same applies hereinafter) have either exceeded or fallen below the average earnings for the fiscal year starting on April 1, 2015 (when the amount subject to automatic changing has been changed pursuant to the provisions of this Article, the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year when the latest change was implemented), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must change the amount subject to automatic changing applicable from August 1 of the following fiscal year in accordance with the percentage of the increase or decrease.

②If there is a fractional amount of one to four yen in the amount subject to automatic changing which was changed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount is to be rounded down to the nearest ten yen, and a fractional amount of five to nine yen is to be rounded up to the nearest ten yen.

③Of the amounts subject to automatic changing applicable from August 1 of each fiscal year as calculated based on the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, any amount that does not reach the minimum daily wage amount (meaning the amount calculated by the calculation method specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the amount of the regional minimum wage (meaning the regional minimum wage prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Minimum Wage Act (Act No. 137 of 1959)) in effect on April 1 of that fiscal year) is to be that minimum daily wage amount from August 1 of that fiscal year.

④"The amount subject to automatic changing" referred to in the preceding three paragraphs means the amounts used in calculating the daily amount of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) (including as applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of the same Article, following the deemed replacement of terms), being the daily wage in the scope of 2,460 yen or more and less than 4,920 yen, which is multiplied by 80 percent pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the same Article and the daily wage in the scope of 4,920 yen or more and 12,090 yen or less, which is multiplied by a rate from 80 percent to 50 percent pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph and the amounts listed in each item of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article.

①If a qualified recipient has earned an income through labor during a period for which the recipient has obtained the recognition of unemployment, payment of the basic allowance for the number of days on which the income have been based (hereinafter referred to as the "number of basis days" in this paragraph) is as specified by the following provisions:

②When the average earnings for the fiscal year have exceeded or fallen below the average earnings for the fiscal year starting on April 1, 2015 (when the amount of deduction has been changed pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year when the latest change was implemented), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must change the amount of deduction applicable from August 1 of the following fiscal year in accordance with the percentage of the increase or decrease.

③When a qualified recipient has earned an income through labor during a period for which the recipient has obtained the recognition of unemployment, they must submit a notification on the amount of income and other matters to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The basic allowance is paid, unless otherwise specified in this Act, in accordance with the classification of qualified recipients listed in the following items, for the days of unemployment within the period prescribed in each of those items (where a qualified recipient, who is unable to work for a continuous period of 30 days or more within the period due to pregnancy, childbirth or childcare or for other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, has notified to that effect to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of days for which the person is unable to work due to those reasons are to be added to the period and where the total period after that addition exceeds four years, the prescribed period is to be four years), within the limit of the number of days equivalent to the prescribed duration of benefits provided for in Article 22, paragraph (1):

②When a qualified recipient whose separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification is due to reaching retirement age (limited to the retirement age equal to or exceeding the age specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) or for any other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, does not wish to apply for employment as prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (2) during a certain period after the separation from service, and notifies to this effect to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the phrases "in accordance with the classification of qualified recipient listed in the following items...within the period prescribed in each of those items" and "within the period" in the preceding paragraph are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "within the total of the period prescribed in each of the items and the period equivalent to a certain period (limited to one year) during which the recipient does not wish to apply for employment as prescribed in the following paragraph (where the recipient has applied for employment as prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (2) during the certain period in which they do not wish to apply for employment, the total of the period prescribed in each of those items and a period equivalent to the period from the day after the day of separation from service pertaining to recipient qualification for the basic allowance (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this Subsection) until the day before the application for employment is made)" and "within the total period"; and the phrase "the day of separation from service pertaining to recipient qualification for the basic allowance (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this Subsection)" in item (i) of the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the basis day."

③In the case referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, when a person who has the recipient qualification referred to in paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "previous recipient qualification" in this paragraph) has newly obtained a recipient qualification, a recipient qualification for the elderly prescribed in Article 37-3, paragraph (2), or a special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2) during the period under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the basic allowance based on the previous recipient qualification will not be paid from the date of obtaining the new qualification.

If a qualified recipient who has commenced a business after the basis day (excluding a business whose period of implementation is less than 30 days and other businesses specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), or a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent thereto, has notified the chief of the Public Employment Security Office to that effect as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the period of implementation of the business (excluding, where the number of days in the period of implementation exceeds the number of days obtained by deducting the number of days in the period calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of the preceding Article from four years, the number of days in excess) is not to be included in the period under the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Article.

The basic allowance is not paid if a qualified recipient has been unemployed for a period of less than seven days in total (including days on which the recipient is unable to work on account of disease or injury) from the day of the first application for employment to the Public Employment Security Office after separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for the basic allowance.

①The number of days for which the basic allowance is payable based on single recipient qualification (hereinafter referred to as the "prescribed duration of benefits") is to be the number of days specified in each of the following items in accordance with the classification of qualified recipients listed in the respective items:

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the prescribed duration of benefits for qualified recipients set forth in the preceding paragraph who have difficulty in finding employment for reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is to be the number of days specified in the following items in accordance with the classification of qualified recipients listed in those items for those with a basic period for calculation equal to or exceeding one year, and 150 days for those with a basic period for calculation of less than one year:

③The basic period for calculation referred to in the preceding two paragraphs is to be the period in which a qualified recipient specified in those provisions has been employed as an insured person in a covered undertaking by the same employer continuously until the basis day (for a person who had at one time been an insured person before the person became an insured person pertaining to the employment period, the total of that employment period and the period for which they were the insured person); provided, however, that in the case where the period includes periods listed in the following items, the period is to be that calculated by excluding all the periods falling under the periods listed in those respective items:

④With regard to a single insured period, if the day on which a person became an insured person was before the day two years preceding the day on which confirmation of the person's status as an insured person was made pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, the calculations under the preceding paragraph are to be carried out by deeming that the person has become an insured person on the day two years preceding the day of the confirmation.

⑤With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a person who satisfies all of the following requirements (excluding a person who knew of the fact prescribed in item (i)), the phrase "the day two years preceding the day of the confirmation" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the earliest time at which it is evident that an amount equivalent to the amount to be borne by the insured person prescribed in item (ii) of the following paragraph had been deducted from the wages paid to that person".

①Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the prescribed duration of benefits for specific qualified recipients (limited to those with the basic period for calculation prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (hereinafter simply referred to as "basic period for calculation" in this Article) for one year or more (or for five years for the specific qualified recipients listed in item (v)) is to be the number of days specified in the following items, in accordance with the classification of the specific qualified recipients listed in those items:

②The specific qualified recipients set forth in the preceding paragraph are qualified recipients who fall under either of the following items (excluding qualified recipients prescribed in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article):

①When a qualified recipient takes public vocational training, etc. as directed by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office (excluding the training, etc. that exceeds the duration specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Article, Article 36, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 41, paragraph (1)), the basic allowance may be paid to the person for a period in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits (if the number of days for which the qualified recipient has received payment of the basic allowance within the period under Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) is less than the prescribed duration of benefits, the number of days for which the recipient has received payment of the basic allowance; hereinafter the same applies in this Section, except for Article 33, paragraph (3)), with regard to days when the person is unemployed during the duration of the public vocational training, etc. (including period of time that the person spends waiting in order to receive the public vocational training, etc. (limited to the period specified by Cabinet Order)).

②When the chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds, in light of criteria specified by Cabinet Order, that a qualified recipient receiving public vocational training, etc. they directed to undergo (limited to qualified recipients for whom the remaining number of basic allowance benefit days as on the day of completion of the public vocational training, etc. (meaning the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable within the period from the day after the day of completion of the course of public vocational training, etc. to the last day of the benefit period (meaning the period for which the basic allowance is payable for days they are unemployed within the period; the same applies hereinafter) in the case where the provisions of paragraph (4) are considered not to apply; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (4)) is less than the number of days specified by Cabinet Order), is a person who has considerable difficulty in finding employment even after completion of the public vocational training, etc., the basic allowance may be paid to that person in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits with regard to the days they are unemployed within the period prescribed in paragraph (4). In this case, the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits is limited to the number of days obtained by deducting the remaining number of benefit days from the number of days specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in the first sentence of this paragraph.

③When a qualified recipient who receives payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) takes public vocational training, etc. as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office in excess of the duration of benefits prescribed in Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), that person's benefit period is to be the period until the day of completion of the public vocational training, etc., notwithstanding these provisions.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), the benefit period for a qualified recipient who receives payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of paragraph (2) is to be the period obtained by adding to the period specified in these provisions the number of days obtained by deducting the remaining number of benefit days from the number of days specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in the first sentence of paragraph (2) of this Article (for persons who take public vocational training, etc. as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office in excess of the duration of benefits prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the same Article and who are qualified to receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), with regard to the day of completion of the public vocational training, etc., the period from that day until the day on which the number of days specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in the first sentence of paragraph (2) have elapsed).

①With regard to qualified recipients other than the qualified recipients who have difficulty in finding employment prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (2), who are persons separated from service for specific reasons prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (3) (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) or specific qualified recipients prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (2), who fall under any of the following items, and for whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office has found it appropriate, in light of the criteria specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as the "guidance criteria" in the following paragraph), to give the vocational guidance necessary for facilitating re-employment, the basic allowance may be paid in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits with regard to the days of unemployment (limited to days for which the recognition of unemployment has been obtained) within the period under the provisions of paragraph (4).

②With regard to qualified recipients who have difficulty in finding employment prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (2), who fall under item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, and for whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office has found it appropriate, in light of the guidance criteria, to give the vocational guidance necessary for facilitating re-employment, the basic allowance may be paid in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits with regard to the days of unemployment (limited to days for which the recognition of unemployment has been obtained) within the period under the provisions of paragraph (4).

③In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits is to be limited to the number of days specified in the following items in accordance with the classification of qualified recipients listed in the respective items:

④Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), the benefit period for a qualified recipient who receives payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) (hereinafter referred to as the "individual extended benefits") is to be the period obtained by adding the number of days prescribed in the preceding paragraph to the period specified in these provisions.

①When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that it is difficult for job applicants residing in a certain area to find employment in the area, based on employment and other conditions in the area, has formulated plans to promote the employment of the job applicants in other areas and has had the relevant Prefectural Labor Director and the chief of the Public Employment Security Offices carry out employment placement activities over a wide area based on these plans (hereinafter referred to as "wide area employment placement activities" in this Article), and also finds it necessary in light of the standards specified by Cabinet Order for the area covered by the wide area employment placement activities, the Minister may make a decision on the measures for paying the basic allowance to qualified recipients whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office certifies to be appropriate to be referred to employment through wide area employment placement activities for the area, in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits, with regard to the days the applicants are unemployed within the period prescribed in paragraph (4), but limited to the period designated by the Minister. In this case, the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits is to be limited to the number of benefit days specified by Cabinet Order.

②When a person who is qualified to receive payment of the basic allowance based on the measures set forth in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "wide area extended benefits") has changed their domicile or residence to a place within the area designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the basic allowance may continue to be paid based on the measures.

③In certifying whether or not a qualified recipient is appropriate for referral to employment through wide area employment placement activities, the certification of the chief of the Public Employment Security Office must conform to the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), the benefit period for a qualified recipient who is to receive payment of the wide area extended benefits is to be the period obtained by adding the number of days specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in the second sentence of paragraph (1) to the period specified in these provisions.

①The basic allowance based on the measures referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is not paid to a qualified recipient who, on or after the day on which the decision on the measures was made, has relocated from another area to the area covered by the measures and has been found to have no special reason for the relocation.

②In certifying whether or not there is any special reason prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the certification is to be made by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when there has been a severe nationwide worsening of unemployment situation reaching the standards specified by Cabinet Order, and the Minister finds it necessary from the perspective of employment prospects for qualified recipients, make a decision on measures to pay the basic allowance to qualified recipients in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits, for a limited period designated by the Minister, with regard to the days the recipients are unemployed within the period prescribed in paragraph (3). In this case, the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits is to be limited to the number of days specified by Cabinet Order.

②The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when finding it necessary in light of the standards specified by Cabinet Order after having made a decision on the measures referred to in the preceding paragraph, may extend the period designated under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (when the period has been extended under the provisions of this paragraph, that extended period).

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), the benefit period for a qualified recipient who is qualified to receive payment of the basic allowance based on the measures referred to in paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as the "national extended benefits") is to be the period obtained by adding the number of days specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in the second sentence of paragraph (1) to the period specified in these provisions.

①With regard to qualified recipients receiving the individual extended benefits, unless payment of the individual extended benefits has ended, the wide area extended benefits, the national extended benefits and the training extended benefits (meaning payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) are not paid; with regard to qualified recipients receiving the wide area extended benefits, unless payment of the wide area extended benefits has ended, the national extended benefits and the training extended benefits are not paid; with regard to qualified recipients receiving the national extended benefits, unless payment of the national extended benefits has ended, the training extended benefits are not paid.

②If it has been decided that the individual extended benefits, the wide area extended benefits or the national extended benefits are to be paid to a qualified recipient receiving the training extended benefits, the training extended benefits are not paid to the person when such extended benefits are being paid; if it has been decided that the individual extended benefits or the wide area extended benefits are to be paid to a qualified recipient receiving the national extended benefits, the national extended benefits are not paid to the person when such extended benefits are being paid; if it has been decided that the individual extended benefits are to be paid to a qualified recipient receiving the wide area extended benefits, the wide area extended benefits are not paid to the person when the individual extended benefits are being paid.

③Beyond what is set forth in the preceding two paragraphs, the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable, the benefit period, and other matters necessary for the adjustment of extended benefits for qualified recipients who consecutively receive payment of various kinds of extended benefits prescribed in paragraph (1), are specified by Cabinet Order.

①If a qualified recipient receiving the training extended benefits (limited to payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (2); the same applies in Article 32, paragraph (1)), the individual extended benefits, the wide area extended benefits, or the national extended benefits has refused, without legitimate grounds, to take up the employment which has been referred to by the Public Employment Security Office, to take a course of public vocational training, etc., as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, or to receive the vocational guidance necessary for facilitating re-employment given by the Public Employment Security Office in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the basic allowance is not to be paid as from the date of the refusal; provided, however, that this does not apply when the person has newly obtained recipient qualification.

②The chief of the Public Employment Security Office is to certify whether or not there are legitimate grounds prescribed in the preceding paragraph in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The basic allowance is to be paid once every four weeks, with regard to the days for which the recognition of unemployment has been given, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may specify differently for the payment of the basic allowance to qualified recipients who take a course of public vocational training, etc., as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office and to other qualified recipients as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

②The chief of the Public Employment Security Office is to specify the date to pay the basic allowance to each qualified recipient and inform the recipient thereof.

①A person, who demands under the provisions of Article 10-3, paragraph (1) for payment of the basic allowance for a period for which the recognition of unemployment could not be obtained due to the death of the qualified recipient, must obtain the recognition of unemployment for the qualified recipient pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

②If a qualified recipient set forth in the preceding paragraph falls under the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1), the person who is to be paid the unpaid part of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 10-3, paragraph (1) must, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, notify the amount of income referred to in Article 19, paragraph (1) and other matters to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office.

①If a qualified recipient (excluding one who is receiving the training extended benefits, individual extended benefits, wide area extended benefits, or national extended benefits; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) has refused to take up the employment which has been referred to by the Public Employment Security Office or to take a course of public vocational training, etc., as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, the basic allowance is not to be paid for one month as from the date of the refusal; provided, however, that this does not apply to the case where the person falls under any of the following items:

②If a qualified recipient has refused, without legitimate grounds, to receive vocational guidance necessary for facilitating re-employment given by the Public Employment Security Office in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the basic allowance is not paid during the period specified by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office within a limit not exceeding one month calculated from the day of the refusal.

③The chief of the Public Employment Security Office is to certify whether a qualified recipient falls under any of the items of paragraph (1) and whether any legitimate grounds prescribed in the preceding paragraph exists, in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①If an insured person has been dismissed due to serious grounds attributable to themselves or has resigned voluntarily without legitimate grounds, the basic allowance is not to be paid for a period specified by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office of one month or more and three months or less, following the expiration of the period prescribed in Article 21; provided, however, that this does not apply to the following qualified recipients (limited, for those listed in item (i), to a period during which the person takes public vocational training, etc. as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office and a period after the day of completion of the public vocational training, etc., and, for those listed in item (iii), to a period during which the person takes the training prescribed in item (ii) and a period after the day of completion of that training):

②The chief of the Public Employment Security Office is to certify whether or not a qualified recipient falls under any of the cases set forth in the preceding paragraph, in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③When the basic allowance is not payable under the provisions of paragraph (1) with regard to the separation from service pertaining to recipient qualification for the basic allowance and the period obtained by adding to the period in which the basic allowance is not payable the number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the range of more than 7 days and less than 30 days and the number of days equivalent to the prescribed duration of benefits pertaining to the recipient qualification exceeds one year (a period obtained by adding 60 days to one year for a qualified recipient who falls under Article 22, paragraph (2), item (i) on the day of separation from service pertaining to recipient qualification for the basic allowance), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), the benefit period for the qualified recipient is to be the period obtained by adding to the period prescribed in these provisions the period in excess of one year.

④With regard to qualified recipients falling under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the term "Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2)" in Article 24, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 33, paragraph (3)."

⑤When a qualified recipient falling under the provisions of paragraph (3) receives payment of the individual extended benefits, wide area extended benefits, national extended benefits, or training extended benefits, the necessary matters concerning adjustments of the benefit period for the person are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The basic allowance is not paid to a person who has received or attempted to receive payment of the job applicant benefits or employment promotion benefits by deception or other wrongful acts, as from the day on which the person received or attempted to receive payment of those benefits; provided, however, that if there are unavoidable circumstances, the whole or a part of the basic allowance may be paid.

②If a person prescribed in the preceding paragraph has newly obtained recipient qualification after the day prescribed in the same paragraph, the basic allowance based on the newly obtained qualification is to be paid, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③Even if a qualified recipient has, because of having had payment of the basic allowance withheld under the provisions of paragraph (1), become unable to receive payment of the basic allowance for the entire number of benefit days for which the recipient would otherwise have been qualified to receive payment of the basic allowance based on the recipient qualification, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (3), it is deemed that the payment of the basic allowance based on the recipient qualification has been made.

④If a qualified recipient has, because of having had payment of the basic allowance withheld under the provisions of paragraph (1), become unable to receive payment of the basic allowance, as from the day prescribed in the same paragraph, for the whole or a part of the number of benefit days for which the recipient would otherwise have been qualified to receive payment of the basic allowance based on the recipient qualification, with respect to the application of the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (4), it is deemed that the payment of the basic allowance for the number of benefit days for which it has been decided that the basic allowance is not payable has been made.

①When a qualified recipient takes a course of public vocational training, etc., as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, skill acquisition allowance is paid for the period of the course.

②When a qualified recipient takes up lodging separately from cohabiting relatives whom the recipient is supporting financially (including a person with whom a marriage is not registered but with whom the recipient is in a de facto marital relationship; the same applies in Article 58, paragraph (2)) in order to take public vocational training, etc. as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, lodging allowance is paid for the period of lodging.

③The skill acquisition allowance and the lodging allowance are not paid for the period for which the basic allowance is not to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraphs (1) and (2) or Article 33, paragraph (1).

④The requirements for payment and the amount of the skill acquisition allowance and of the lodging allowance are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑤The provisions of Article 34, paragraphs (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the skill acquisition allowance and the lodging allowance.

①If a qualified recipient becomes unable to work due to disease or injury after making an appearance and applying for employment at the Public Employment Security Office following separation from service, injury and disease allowance is to be paid, within the limit of the number of days equivalent to the number of days prescribed in paragraph (4), with regard to the days within the period prescribed in Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) (for those falling under the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (3), the period prescribed in the same paragraph, and for those falling under the provisions of Article 57, paragraph (1) the period prescribed in the paragraph), during which payment of the basic allowance could not be received due to disease or injury (limited to those days with regard to which recognition of the fact that the recipient cannot receive payment of the basic allowance for disease or injury has been obtained).

②The certification set forth in the preceding paragraph is given by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③The daily amount of the injury and disease allowance is the amount equivalent to the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 16.

④The number of days for which the injury and disease allowance is payable is the number of days obtained by deducting from the prescribed duration of benefits for the qualified recipient that have obtained the recognition referred to in paragraph (1), the number of days for which the basic allowance has already been paid to the qualified recipient based on the recipient qualification.

⑤The injury and disease allowance is not paid for a period for which the basic allowance is not to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 33, paragraph (1).

⑥When the injury and disease allowance has been paid, with regard to the application of the provisions of this Act (excluding the provisions of Article 10-4 and Article 34), the basic allowance is deemed to have been paid for the number of days equivalent to the number of days for which the injury and disease allowance was paid.

⑦The injury and disease allowance is paid, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for the days which the certification referred to in paragraph (1) has been obtained, on the day on which payment of the basic allowance is due for the first time after the grounds that the person cannot take up the employment have ceased to exist (if there is no day on which payment of the basic allowance is due after the grounds that the person cannot take up the employment has ceased to exist, the day designated by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office); provided, however, that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when they find it necessary, may specify differently for the payment of the injury and disease allowance.

⑧The injury and disease allowance is not paid when a qualified recipient who has obtained the recognition referred to in paragraph (1), with regard to the days for which the certification was obtained, is able to receive payment of the injury and disease allowance prescribed in Article 99 of the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922), the compensation for absence from work prescribed in Article 76 of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947), the temporary absence from work compensation benefits, the multiple-job worker's temporary absence from work benefits or the temporary absence from work benefits prescribed in the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (Act No. 50 of 1947), or other benefits equivalent thereto that are specified by Cabinet Order from among the benefits provided pursuant to laws and regulations (including ordinances or rules based on the provisions of laws and regulations).

⑨The provisions of Article 19, Article 21, Article 31 and Article 34, paragraphs (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the injury and disease allowance. In this case, the term "certification of unemployment" in Article 19, paragraphs (1) and (3) and Article 31, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "certification referred to in Article 37, paragraph (1)."

①The job applicant benefits for the elderly are paid, pursuant to the provisions of this Section, if an insured person who is 65 years old or older (excluding specially insured persons in short-term employment prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) and insured day workers prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1); hereinafter referred to as "elderly insured persons") has become unemployed.

②The provisions of the preceding Section (excluding Article 14), the following Section and Section 4 do not apply to elderly insured persons.

①The job applicant benefits for the elderly are paid, pursuant to the provisions of the following Article, when an elderly insured person becomes unemployed and the total insured period under Article 14 during the one-year period preceding the day of separation from service (for an insured person who is an elderly insured person who was continuously unable to receive payment of wages for 30 days or more during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the period obtained by adding the number of days for which the person was unable to receive payment of wages for those reasons to one year (if the period exceeds four years, four years)) is six months or more. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 14, the phrase "12 months (six months, in the case where the terms are replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "six months".

②If a person who is qualified to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for the elderly pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "recipient qualification for the elderly") (hereinafter the person is referred to as "elderly qualified recipient"), has taken up employment without receiving the job applicant benefits for the elderly during the period prescribed in paragraph (5) of the following Article and thereafter became unemployed again (excluding the case where the person has newly obtained a recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2)), when the person has obtained the certification referred to in paragraph (5) of the following Article after making an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office and applying for employment during the period, the person may receive payment of the job applicant benefits for the elderly based on the recipient qualification for the elderly.

①The amount of the job applicant benefits for the elderly is to be the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of the basic allowance to be paid when the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 (excluding Article 17, paragraph (4), item (ii)) are applied to qualified recipients by deeming elderly qualified recipients as qualified recipients prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) by the number of days prescribed in the following items in accordance with the classification of the basic periods for calculation listed in each item (where the number of days from the day on which the certification referred to in paragraph (5) was obtained until the final day of the period prescribed in the same paragraph is less than the number of days prescribed in each item, the number of days equivalent to the number of days from the day on which the certification was obtained until the final day):

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the daily amount of wages for elderly qualified recipients calculated pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph exceeds the amount specified in Article 17, paragraph (4), item (ii), (d) (where the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount), this amount is to be the daily amount of wages.

③The basic period for calculation referred to in paragraph (1) is to be the period equivalent to the period calculated when the elderly qualified recipients are deemed to be qualified recipients prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) and the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for the elderly is deemed to be the basis day prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i), and the provisions of Article 22, paragraphs (3) and (4) are applied.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (3) in the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "or a special lump sum payment" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with ", the job applicant benefits for the elderly or a special lump sum payment", and the phrase "or to the special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2)" with ", to the recipient qualification for the elderly prescribed in Article 37-3, paragraph (2) or to the special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2)".

⑤An elderly qualified recipient seeking to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for the elderly must make an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office, by the day on which one year has elapsed from the day following the day of separation from service, apply for employment, and then obtain the certification of unemployment, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑥The provisions of Article 21, Article 31, paragraph (1), Article 32, Article 33, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 34, paragraphs (1) through (3) apply mutatis mutandis with regard to the job applicant benefits for the elderly. In this case, the term "qualified recipients" and "recipient qualification" in these provisions are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "elderly qualified recipients" and "recipient qualification for the elderly"; the terms "a period for which the recognition of unemployment could not be obtained" and "obtain the recognition of unemployment" in Article 31, paragraph (1) are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "elderly qualified recipients when the certification referred to in Article 37-4, paragraph (5) could not be obtained" and "obtain the certification referred to in the same paragraph"; and the term "the period prescribed in Article 21" in Article 33, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the period prescribed in Article 21 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (6)."

①A person who falls under all of the following requirements may, by notifying the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, become an elderly insured person from the day on which the notification was made:

②A person who has become an elderly insured person pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must, when the person no longer satisfies the requirements set forth in the items of that paragraph, notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③With regard to a worker who has made the notification under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the confirmation under the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) is deemed to have been made.

④When a notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) has been made, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must notify the two employers referred to in paragraph (1), item (iii) that the worker has become an insured person or has ceased to be an insured person.

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-4, paragraph (1), Article 61-7, paragraph (1), Article 61-8, paragraph (1), Article 61-10, paragraph (1) and Article 61-12, paragraph (1) to a person who has become an elderly insured person pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the phrase "has taken" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "has taken in all of the covered undertakings".

②Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 37-4, paragraph (1) and Article 56-3, paragraph (3), item (ii) in the case where a person who has become an elderly insured person pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has separated from service in any one of the covered undertakings pertaining to the notification under the provisions of that paragraph, the phrase "Article 17, paragraph (4), item (ii)" in Article 37-4, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 17, paragraph (4)", and the phrase "is to be the amount" with "is to be the amount. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 17, the phrase 'wages (' in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with 'wages (limited to wages paid in the covered undertaking from which the person separated from service, and'"; and the phrase "Articles 16 through 18" in Article 56-3, paragraph (3), item (ii), (b) is deemed to be replaced with "Articles 16 through 18 (excluding Article 17, paragraph (4), item (i))".

①If an insured person who is employed on a seasonal basis and does not fall under any of the following items (excluding insured day workers prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1); hereinafter referred to as "specially insured person in short-term employment") has become unemployed, a special lump sum payment is to be made, pursuant to the provisions of this Section:

②The confirmation as to whether or not an insured person falls under any of the items of the preceding paragraph is made by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③The provisions of Section 2 (excluding Article 14), the preceding Section and the following Section do not apply to specially insured persons in short-term employment.

①A special lump sum payment is made pursuant to the provisions of the following Article, when a specially insured person in short-term employment has become unemployed and the person's total insured period under Article 14 during the one-year period preceding the day of separation from service has been six months or more (for insured persons who are specially insured persons in short-term employment who were continuously unable to receive payment of wages for 30 days or more during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the period obtained by adding the number of days for which they were unable to receive payment of wages for those reasons to one year (when the total period exceeds four years, four years)). In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 14, the phrase "12 months (six months, in the case where the terms are replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "six months".

②If a person who is qualified to receive the special lump sum payment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "special recipient qualification") (hereinafter the person is referred to as "specially qualified recipient") has obtained employment without receiving the special lump sum payment within the period prescribed in paragraph (3) of the following Article and has subsequently become unemployed again (excluding the case where the person has newly obtained a recipient qualification prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i), recipient qualification for the elderly, or special recipient qualification), when the person, within that period, has obtained the recognition referred to in paragraph (3) of the following Article after making an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office and applying for employment, the person is able to receive the special lump sum payment based on the special recipient qualification.

①The amount of the special lump sum payment is to be an amount equivalent to the daily amount of the basic allowance that would be payable to a specially qualified recipient when the recipient is deemed as a qualified recipient prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) and the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 are applied to the recipient, multiplied by 30 days (when the number of days from the day on which the recognition referred to in paragraph (3) was made until the last day of the period under the same paragraph is less than 30 days, the number of days equivalent to that number of days).

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (4) in the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the term "under 30 years old" in item (ii), (d) of the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "under 30 years old or 65 years old or older."

③A specially qualified recipient who seeks to receive the special lump sum payment must, before the day on which six months have elapsed from the day following the day of separation from service and as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, obtain the certification of unemployment by making an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office and applying for employment.

④The provisions of Article 21, Article 31, paragraph (1), Article 32, Article 33, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 34, paragraphs (1) through (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the special lump sum payment. In this case, the terms "qualified recipient" and "recipient qualification" in Article 21 are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "specially qualified recipient" and "special recipient qualification"; the terms "qualified recipient", "a period for which the certification of unemployment could not be obtained" and "obtain the certification of unemployment" in Article 31, paragraph (1) are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "specially qualified recipient", "the specially qualified recipients where the certification of unemployment referred to in Article 40, paragraph (3) could not be obtained" and "must obtain the recognition referred to in the same paragraph"; the term "qualified recipient" in Article 32 is deemed to be replaced with "specially qualified recipient"; the term "provided, however, that this does not apply to the following qualified recipients (limited, for those listed in item (i), to a period during which the person takes public vocational training, etc. as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office and a period after the day of completion of the public vocational training, etc., and, for those listed in item (iii), to a period during which the person takes the training prescribed in item (ii) and a period after the day of completion of that training)" in Article 33, paragraph (1) is deleted; the term "qualified recipient" in paragraph (2) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "specially qualified recipient"; the term "recipient qualification" in Article 34, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "special recipient qualification" and the terms "qualified recipient" and "recipient qualification" in paragraph (3) of the same Article are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "specially qualified recipient" and "special recipient qualification".

①When a specially qualified recipient is to take a course of public vocational training, etc. (excluding one for a period which is shorter than that specified by Cabinet Order), as directed by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office, before receiving the special lump sum payment based on the special recipient qualification, the special lump sum payment is not to be paid, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (3) and the preceding three Articles, and the job applicant benefits are paid, pursuant to the provisions of Section 2 (excluding the provisions of the proviso of Article 33, paragraph (1)), by deeming the person as a qualified recipient prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1), limited to the period until the day of completion of the course of public vocational training, etc.

②A specially qualified recipient referred to in the preceding paragraph is able to receive payment of the job applicant benefits pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, even if it is found that the person may not receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (1) or Article 34, paragraph (1) before the day on which the person became an insured person pertaining to the special recipient qualification.

The term "day worker" as used in this Section means a worker who falls under any of the following items (excluding those who have been employed in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 18 days or more in each of the preceding two months and those who have been employed continuously in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 31 days or more (except those who have obtained the approval referred to in paragraph (2) of the following Article)):

①If a day worker who is an insured person that falls under any of the following items (hereinafter referred to as "insured day worker") has become unemployed, job applicant benefits for day workers are paid pursuant to the provisions of this Section:

②If an insured day worker was employed in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 18 days or more in each of the preceding two months or was employed continuously in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 31 days or more, when the day worker has obtained an approval by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the day worker may continue to be an insured day worker.

③If an insured day worker who was employed in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 18 days or more in each of the preceding two months or an insured day worker who was employed continuously in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 31 days or more has been separated from service in the first month in which the worker ceased to be treated as an insured day worker due to not having received the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph and has become unemployed, the person is deemed to be an insured day worker with regard to the payment of job applicant benefits for day workers during the month in which they became unemployed.

④The provisions of Article 6 (limited to item (iii)), Articles 7 through 9 and the preceding three Sections do not apply to insured day workers.

An insured day worker must, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, receive issuance of the insured day worker's benefits book at the Public Employment Security Office.

If an insured day worker has become unemployed, and when the stamp premiums referred to in Article 10, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Premiums Collection Act (hereinafter referred to as "stamp premiums") are paid to the person for 26 days or more in total during the period of two months before the month containing the date of unemployment, the job applicant benefits for day workers are to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Articles 47 through 52.

If a person who is able to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article is a qualified recipient prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1), the job applicant benefits for day workers are not paid for the days which the person has received payment of the basic allowance, and the basic allowance are not paid for the days which they have received payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers.

①The job applicant benefits for day workers are paid for the days on which an insured day worker is unemployed (limited to those days for which the certification of unemployment has been obtained; the same applies in Article 54, item (i)).

②A person who seeks to obtain the certification of unemployment referred to in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "recognition of unemployment" in this Section) must make an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office and apply for employment, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when they find it necessary, may specify differently for the certification of unemployment of insured day workers, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

The daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers is to be the amount prescribed in the following items, in accordance with the classification listed in each item:

①When the average regular earnings (meaning the average regular earnings referred to in Article 18, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) have either exceeded 120 percent or fallen below 83 percent of the average regular earnings for September 1994 (the average regular earnings which were the basis of the most recent revision where the daily amounts, etc. of the job applicant benefits for day workers have been changed based on the provisions of this paragraph), and when the situation is found to be likely to persist, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must change the daily amounts, etc. of the job applicant benefits for day workers, in accordance with the percentage of increase or decrease of the average regular earnings.

②The "daily amounts, etc. of the job applicant benefits for day workers" referred to in the preceding paragraph means the daily amount of wages pertaining to the classification of the first class stamp premiums and the second class stamp premiums (if the amounts have been changed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the changed amounts; referred to as "daily amounts of wages pertaining to the first and second class stamp premium classification" in the following paragraph) and the daily amount of wages pertaining to the classification of the second class stamp premiums and the third class stamp premiums (if the amounts have been changed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the changed amounts; referred to as "daily amounts of wages pertaining to the second and third class stamp premium classification" in the following paragraph), out of the daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers prescribed in item (i) of the preceding Article (referred to as "first class benefits" in the following paragraph and Article 54), the daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers prescribed in item (ii) of the preceding Article (referred to as "second class benefits" in the following paragraph and Article 54), the daily amount of the job applicant benefits for day workers prescribed in item (iii) of the preceding Article (referred to as "third class benefits" in the following paragraph and Article 54) and the daily amounts of wages pertaining to the classification of the amounts of stamp premiums prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Premium Collection Act.

③When the daily amounts of the first class premiums, the second class premiums, and the third class premiums prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (2) of the Premiums Collection Act have been changed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of the same Article, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may not change the daily amounts of the first class benefits, the second class benefits, and the third class benefits nor of the daily amounts of wages pertaining to the first and second class stamp premium classification or of wages pertaining to the second and third class stamp premium classification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), during the period from the date of the change until the day before the day on which one year has elapsed from the date of the change (if there has been a Diet decision with regard to the change before that day, the day before the day of the decision).

①The job applicant benefits for day workers are paid, for the days in the month containing the day on which an insured day worker became unemployed, for which the certification of unemployment was obtained, within the limit of 13 benefit days in total, when stamp premiums have been paid for the insured day worker for less than 28 days in total during the two-month period before the month containing the day of unemployment, and within the limit of the number of benefit days obtained by adding one day to the 13 days for every four days in excess of the 28 days, when stamp premiums have been paid for the insured day worker for more than 28 days in total; provided, however, that the job applicant benefits for day workers are not to be paid for more than 17 days in total for that month.

②The job applicant benefits for day workers are not paid for the first day in each week (meaning the seven day period from Sunday to Saturday) on which the insured day worker did not take up employment.

①The job applicant benefits for day workers are to be paid at the Public Employment Security Office on the day on which the certification of unemployment is given.

②The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when they find it necessary, may specify differently for the payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③The provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the job applicant benefits for day workers. In this case, the terms "qualified recipient" and "certification of unemployment" in the same paragraph are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "person able to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers" and "certification of unemployment referred to in Article 47, paragraph (2)."

①If a day worker who is able to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers has refused to take up the employment referred by the Public Employment Security Office, the job applicant benefits for day workers are not paid for seven days counting from the day on which the worker refused to take up the employment; provided, however, that this does not apply if the worker falls under any of the following items:

②The certification on whether or not a person who is able to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers falls under any of the items of the preceding paragraph is to be made by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③If a person who is able to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers has received or attempted to receive payment of the job applicant benefits or employment promotion benefits by deception or other wrongful acts, the job applicant benefits for day workers are not paid to the person for the month for which they received or attempted to receive payment of the job applicant benefits or the employment promotion benefits, and for the period of three months from the month following that month; provided, however, that if there are unavoidable reasons, the whole or a part of the job applicant benefits for day workers may be paid.

①If an insured day worker has become unemployed and the worker falls under all of the following items, they may notify to that effect to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office and receive payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers prescribed in the following Article:

②The notification referred to in the preceding paragraph must be made within the period of four months from the month following the last month of the basis period.

The payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers to a person who has made the notification referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is to be as prescribed in the following items, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 48 and Article 50, paragraph (1):

①With regard to a person who has made the notification referred to in Article 53, paragraph (1) within the period of two months following the last month of the basis period, the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of Article 45 are not paid until the day on which the two months have elapsed.

②If a person who has made the notification referred to in Article 53, paragraph (1) has received payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of Article 45 in the third or fourth month from the month following the last month of the basis period, the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of the preceding Article are not paid for the days for which the job applicant benefits for day workers were paid; and when the person has received payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of the preceding Article, the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of Article 45 are not paid for the days for which the job applicant benefits for day workers were paid.

③With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 53, paragraph (1), item (ii) in the case where a person who, after having received payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of the preceding Article, makes the notification referred to in Article 53, paragraph (1), it is deemed that the person has received payment of the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of Article 45.

④The provisions of Article 46, Article 47, Article 50, paragraph (2), Articles 51, and Article 52 apply mutatis mutandis to the job applicant benefits for day workers under the provisions of the preceding Article.

①If an insured day worker had been employed in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 18 days or more in each of two months and was separated from service in or after the following month, the two months may be calculated as two months of the insured period under the provisions of Article 14; provided, however, that this does not apply when the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3) have been applied to the worker.

②In calculating the daily amount of wages prescribed in Article 17 for a person who has obtained recipient qualification, recipient qualification for the elderly, or special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i) by calculating the two months prescribed in the preceding paragraph as the insured period pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, the amount obtained by dividing the amount of the stamp premiums paid in each of those two months by the rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is deemed to be the amount of wages paid each month.

③The provisions of paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of the basic period for calculation under the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (3). In this case, the term "the two months may be calculated as two months of the insured period under the provisions of Article 14" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the period employed may be calculated as a period falling under the period in which the person was employed as an insured person in a covered undertaking by the same employer continuously until the basis day prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (3)."

①If an insured day worker has been separated from service after having been employed continuously in a covered undertaking by the same employer for 31 days or more (excluding the case prescribed in the main clause of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the period during which the person was an insured day worker may be deemed to be a period during which the person was an insured person in calculating the insured period under the provisions of Article 14; provided, however, that this does not apply when the person is a person to whom the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3) have been applied.

②In calculating the daily amount of wages prescribed in Article 17 for a person who has obtained the recipient qualification prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i), recipient qualification for the elderly or special recipient qualification by calculating the insured period under the provisions of Article 14 pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount obtained by dividing the amount of the stamp premiums paid during the period, out of the period during which the person was an insured day worker, that is included in the last six months calculated as the insured period in the period for calculation prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) by the rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is deemed to be the amount of wages paid during that period.