①The supervising organization may offer the employment placement services for technical intern training (meaning making arrangements in the course of its trade, to establish an employment relationship for technical intern training between a job recruiter and a job seeker, upon application from that job recruiter or seeker, only if the job recruiter is an organization implementing supervising-organization-type technical intern training, etc. under supervision by the relevant supervising organization, and the job seeker is a supervising-organization-type technical intern trainee, etc. in relation to supervision by the relevant supervising organization; the same applies hereinafter), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (1) and Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947).

②With regard to the employment placement services for technical intern training offered by a supervising organization, the supervising organization is deemed to be the employment placement service provider provided for in Article 4, paragraph (10) of the Employment Security Act, the fee-charging employment placement service provider provided for in Article 32-3, paragraph (1) of the same Act, a person that has obtained the license under Article 33, paragraph (1) of the same Act, or the employment service organization provided for 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), and the provisions of Article 5-2, Article 5-3, Article 5-4, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3), Articles 5-6 through 5-8, Article 32-12 and Article 32-13 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 33, paragraph (4) of the Employment Security Act), Articles 33-5 through 34, Article 48, and Article 48-3, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of the Employment Security Act, and the provisions of Chapter III of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives apply. In this case, the term "Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare" in the provisions of Article 5-3, paragraph (3) and paragraph (4), Article 5-4, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3), Article 5-6, paragraph (1), item (iii), Article 32-13 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 33, paragraph (4) of the Employment Security Act), and Article 33-6 of the Employment Security Act is to be replaced with "order of the competent ministry", and the term "Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare" in the provisions of Article 32-12, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 33, paragraph (4) of the same Act), Article 33-6, Article 48, and Article 48-3, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of the same Act, and Article 11 and Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives is to be replaced with "competent ministers".

③The provisions of Article 18 apply mutatis mutandis to the administrative affairs relating to acceptance of the notification under Article 32-12, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 33, paragraph (4) of the same Act) as applied pursuant to the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms.

④Beyond what is provided for in the preceding three paragraphs, the- other necessary matters relating to the employment placement services of technical intern training are provided for by Order of the competent ministry.

①Supervising organizations must not receive any fees or remuneration for their supervising business, under any name, from an organization implementing supervising-organization-type technical intern training, etc., a supervising-organization-type technical intern trainee, etc., or any other relevant person.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, supervising organizations may collect supervision costs of an appropriate type and amount as provided for by order of the competent ministry based on the general expenses and other costs ordinarily considered necessary for the supervision, after indicating the uses and amounts of those costs clearly to the organization implementing supervising-organization-type technical intern training, etc. in advance.

①If the competent ministers have granted a license as provided for in Article 23,paragraph (1), they must issue certificates corresponding to the number of places of business where the supervising business is to be conducted.

②A person that has been granted a license must keep the certificate at each place of business where the supervising business is conducted, and must present it upon the request of a relevant person.

③If a certificate has been lost or destroyed, the person that was issued the certificate must promptly notify the competent ministers to that effect and must have the certificate reissued.

④The competent ministers may entrust the administrative affairs relating to issuing certificates pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or reissuance of the certificate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph to the OTIT.

⑤If the competent ministers have entrusted the administrative affairs relating to issuance or reissuance of the license certificate pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and paragraph (3) to the OTIT, or if they are to cease entrusting the administrative affairs relating to issuance or reissuance of the license certificate pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and paragraph (3) to the OTIT, they must give public notice to that effect.

①The license to supervise may be subject to conditions, and those conditions may be subject to change.

②The conditions as provided for in the preceding paragraph are to be limited to the minimum degree necessary in light of the purpose of the license to supervise or necessary to ensure the reliable implementation of matters relating to the license to supervise, and must not impose undue obligations on the person that is to receive the license to supervise.

①The period of validity of the license as provided for in Article 23, paragraph (1) (or a renewed period of validity, if the period of validity of the license has been renewed pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph) must be a period of not less than three years from the date of the granting of that license (or from the day after the date of the expiration of the period prior to renewal, if the period of validity of the license has been renewed pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph) as specified by Cabinet Order based on consideration of the capabilities and track record relating to conducting the supervising business.

②A person that seeks to continue conducting the supervising business under the license (or under the amended license, if permission has been granted for a change under paragraph (1) of the following Article or a change has been made to the license of specified supervising business pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (2)) after the expiration of the period of validity of that license as prescribed in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "period of validity of the license" in this Article) must obtain a renewal of the period of validity of that license.

③If an application for renewal of the period of validity of the license has been made and the competent ministers find that the application does not conform to one of the items of paragraph (1) of Article 25, the competent ministers must not renew the period of validity of the license.

④A person that wishes to renew the period of validity of the license must pay the fee provided for by order of the competent ministry based on consideration of the actual costs.

⑤The provisions of Article 23, paragraphs (2) through (5), Article 24, Article 25, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3), Article 26 (excluding item (ii), item (iii) and item (v), (d) and (e)) and Article 29 apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal of the period of validity of the license.

①If a supervising organization intends to change the category of business under its license to supervise, it must obtain an approval to do so from the competent minister. In that case, the supervising organization must have its license certificate amended.

②The provisions of Article 23, paragraphs (2) through (5) and paragraph (7), Article 24, Article 25, Article 26 (excluding item (ii), item (iii), and item (v), (c) and (d)),and Article 29 apply mutatis mutandis to the license provided for in the preceding paragraph.

③If a change has been made in the matters (excluding those specified by order of the competent ministry) listed in the items of Article 23, paragraph (2) (excluding item (iv)), the supervising organization must notify the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect within one month of the date of the change. In such a case, if the matters subject to the relevant change relate to the establishment of a new place of business where the supervising business is to be conducted, the business plan and other documents provided for by order of the competent ministry for the new place of business must be attached to that notification.

④The provisions of Article 23, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the business plan provided for in the preceding paragraph.

⑤If the competent ministers have received a notification under paragraph (3) of the change related to the establishment of a new place of business where the supervising business is to be conducted, they must issue a license certificate corresponding to the number of newly established places of business.

⑥If a supervising organization files a notification under paragraph (3) and the matters related to the notification are described on the license certificate, it must have its license certificate updated.

⑦The provisions of Article 18 apply mutatis mutandis to the administrative affairs relating to acceptance of the notification under paragraph (3), and the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (4) and paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the administrative affairs relating to issuance of the license certificate under paragraph (5).

①If the supervising organization has received a notice under Article 19, paragraph (2) or it finds that it is difficult for an organization implementing supervising-organization-type technical intern training under its supervision to conduct the supervising-organization-type technical intern training, the supervising organization must, without delay, notify the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of the matters relating to that notice and other matters as provided for by Order of the competent ministry.

②The provisions of Article 18 apply mutatis mutandis to the administrative affairs relating to the receipt of the notification under the preceding paragraph.