# 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 — 第四十四条 (Article 44) - 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: 第四十四条 (Article 44)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-44` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-44 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-44 - 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. --- ### 第四十四条（秘密保持義務） — (Obligation of Confidentiality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-44 **第一項** 監理団体の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であった者は、正当な理由なく、その業務に関して知ることができた秘密を漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。 art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-44/par-1 The officers and employees or former officers and employees of the supervising organization must not divulge or misappropriate any confidential information which they came to know of in connection with their work, without reasonable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The officers and employees or former officers and employees of the supervising organization must not divulge or miappropriate any confidential information which they came to know of in connection with their work, without reasonable grounds." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3612/tb ## 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 第百十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-110/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 第百十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-113/par-1 --- ## 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 44, 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