# 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 — 第三条 (Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（基本理念） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（基本理念） — (Basic Principles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-3 **第一項** 技能実習は、技能等の適正な修得、習熟又は熟達（以下「修得等」という。）のために整備され、かつ、技能実習生が技能実習に専念できるようにその保護を図る体制が確立された環境で行われなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-3/par-1 Technical intern training must be developed for the proper acquisition of, increase in the proficiency of, or attainment of the proficiency of (hereinafter referred to as "acquisition") the skills, etc., and conducted in an environment with a system in place to protect technical intern trainees, in order to allow the trainees to concentrate on technical intern training. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 技能実習は、労働力の需給の調整の手段として行われてはならない。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-3/par-2 Technical intern training must not be used as a way to cover labor supply and demand. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite 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 第四条第一項（国及び地方公共団体の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-4/par-1 - 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 第五条第一項（実習実施者、監理団体等の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-5/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 - 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