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)."