A worker may take parental leave (meaning the childcare leave that is to be taken pursuant to the provisions of this Article through Article 9-5 by designating a period of not more than four weeks during the period between the date of birth of the child and the day following the date on which eight weeks elapse from the date of birth of the child (or, in cases where the child is born before the expected date of confinement, the period between the date of birth of the child and the day following the date on which eight weeks elapse from the expected date of confinement or, in cases where the child is born after the expected date of confinement, the period between the relevant expected date of confinement and the day following the date on which eight weeks elapse from the date of birth; the same applies in item (i) of the following paragraph); the same applies hereinafter) for the child that worker takes care of upon applying to their employer; provided, however, that a person employed for a fixed period of time may only file that application in cases where it is not clear that the term of that person's labor contract expires before the day on which six months elapse from the day following the day on which eight weeks elapse from the date of birth of the child that person takes care of (or, in cases where the relevant child is born before the expected date of confinement, the expected date of confinement).
労働者は、その養育する子について、その事業主に申し出ることにより、出生時育児休業（育児休業のうち、この条から第九条の五までに定めるところにより、子の出生の日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日まで（出産予定日前に当該子が出生した場合にあっては当該出生の日から当該出産予定日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日までとし、出産予定日後に当該子が出生した場合にあっては当該出産予定日から当該出生の日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日までとする。次項第一号において同じ。）の期間内に四週間以内の期間を定めてする休業をいう。以下同じ。）をすることができる。ただし、期間を定めて雇用される者にあっては、その養育する子の出生の日（出産予定日前に当該子が出生した場合にあっては、当該出産予定日）から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日から六月を経過する日までに、その労働契約が満了することが明らかでない者に限り、当該申出をすることができる。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a worker may not file an application under the provisions of the preceding paragraph with regard to the child that worker takes care of, in cases where the worker falls under either of the following items:
when a worker has taken parental leave (excluding the parental leave taken based on the application for parental leave set forth in paragraph (4)) twice within the period before the day following the day on which eight weeks elapse from the date of birth of the child (excluding the period during which the worker does not take care of the child); or
when the number of days during which a worker takes parental leave on and after the date of birth of the child (or, in cases where the relevant child is born after the expected date of confinement, the expected date of confinement) (referring to the number of days between the day on which the worker starts the parental leave and the day on which the worker ends the parental leave; the same applies in Article 9-5, paragraph (6), item (iii)) reaches twenty-eight days.
当該子の出生の日（出産予定日後に当該子が出生した場合にあっては、当該出産予定日）以後に出生時育児休業をする日数（出生時育児休業を開始する日から出生時育児休業を終了する日までの日数とする。第九条の五第六項第三号において同じ。）が二十八日に達している場合
The application under the provisions of paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "application for parental leave") must be filed, with regard to a continued period for parental leave, by making clear the first day thereof (hereinafter referred to as the "scheduled start date for parental leave") and the last day thereof (hereinafter referred to as the "scheduled end date for parental leave") as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The provisions of the proviso of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) (excluding item (ii)) do not apply to cases where a person employed for a fixed period of time who takes parental leave having designated the last day of the labor contract period as the scheduled end date for parental leave (or, in cases where the relevant scheduled end date for parental leave is changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-4, the changed scheduled end date for parental leave) files an application for parental leave, due to the renewal of the labor contract, in which the first day of the renewed labor contract period is the scheduled start date for parental leave.
第一項ただし書及び第二項（第二号を除く。）の規定は、期間を定めて雇用される者であって、その締結する労働契約の期間の末日を出生時育児休業終了予定日（第九条の四において準用する第七条第三項の規定により当該出生時育児休業終了予定日が変更された場合にあっては、その変更後の出生時育児休業終了予定日とされた日）とする出生時育児休業をしているものが、当該出生時育児休業に係る子について、当該労働契約の更新に伴い、当該更新後の労働契約の期間の初日を出生時育児休業開始予定日とする出生時育児休業申出をする場合には、これを適用しない。