# 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 / Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees — 第二十条 (Article 20) - Law: 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 (Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees), 平成二十八年法律第八十九号 - English title "Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二十条 (Article 20)（帳簿の備付け） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/technical-intern-training-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-20 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十条（帳簿の備付け） — (Keeping of Books) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/technical-intern-training-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-20 **第一項** 実習実施者は、技能実習に関して、主務省令で定める帳簿書類を作成し、技能実習を行わせる事業所に備えて置かなければならない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/technical-intern-training-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-20/par-1 Implementing organizations must prepare books and documents as provided for by Order of the competent ministries in connection with technical intern training, and keep them at the place of business where the technical intern training is being conducted. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Implementing organizations must prepare books and documnets as provided for by Order of the competent ministries in connection with technical intern training, and keep them at the place of business where the technical intern training is being conducted." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3612/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第百十二条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/technical-intern-training-act/art-112/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-112/par-1/item-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/428AC0000000089/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3612/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees (外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律), Article 20, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3612/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 210 — 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17