英 語

The Foreign Technical Internship Law
is changing!
In June 2024, the Diet passed a law changing the "Foreigner Technical Internship Law" into theTraining and Employment / Revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act .
The foreign technical intern trainee program, which began in 1993, has now been in existence for30 years, and 412,501 foreign technical intern trainees are currently working in Japan. From April
2019, a new status of residence called "specified skill," which makes it easier to obtain permanent
residence, has been created, and more than 200,000 foreign nationals are working in the specified
skill category.
Technical intern trainees are defined by the Technical Internship Law as a system that allows
trainees to acquire skills while working in Japan for a certain period of time (up to five years) forthe purpose of international contribution, and to transfer their skills to developing regions and othercountries.
However, the foreign technical intern trainee program, which was intended as an international
contribution, was used to fill a labor shortage in Japan, and many problems arose. There have been
many cases in which general companies accepting foreign nationals have forced low wages and poor
working conditions on vulnerable technical intern trainees, for example, by not allowing them totransfer to other companies for three years, or by putting them in debt because they paid fees tooverseas travel agencies when they came to Japan.
"Violation Situation” Report on the on-site inspection by the Foreign Technical Intern Trainee
Organization of Japancases

Practical training differsfrom the plan.
実習内容が計画と違う

3943

Inappropriate reportingor notification
届出や報告が不適切

3404

Improper paymentof compensation
報酬の支払いが不適切

2302

Inadequate accommodations, etc.
宿泊施設などの不備
Inadequacies in the system forconducting practicaltraining
実習実施体制の不備
Inadequate preparationof documents
帳簿書類の作成不備
Inappropriate amount of money owed by
技能実習生が負担する金額の不適正
technical intern trainees
Problems relating to the protection of
技能実習生の保護に関するもの
technical intern trainees

2217
1811
1069
229
22

The newly enacted Training and Employment System is a system that will replace the existing
Technical Internship System and is scheduled to begin in 2027. The main purpose of the program isto secure and develop human resources. While the principle of the technical internship system wasto return to their home country after completing the training. the training and employment system
will allow foreign nationals to take root and live together in the local community. After three yearsof training employment, it will be easier to obtain the group No. 1, a specified skill that allows theapplicant to work for up to five years, and then the group No. 2, which has no restrictions on therenewal of status of residence.

■ What will change under the new law?
Training and Employment System

Technical Internship System
Changing jobs

Cannot change jobs for threeyears.

After 1 to 2 years of employment, you can change
jobs if you could acquire Japanese language skills
and change to the same type of job.

Entry feeJapanForeignnationals
whoentered Japan pay to sending
agencies, etc.

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