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Industrial Training Program
In order to enter and reside in Japan for the purpose of receiving
industrial training, foreign nationals must first obtain the necessary "trainee"
status of residence.
What is a "trainee" status
of residence?
The first point to note in connection with a "trainee"
status of residence is that it disqualifies the holder from engaging
in any activity for remuneration. Although Industrial Training Programs may include
training through actual performance of job duties, this must
fall within the scope of OJT (on-the-job training) and must,
as such, be necessary in order to fully acquaint the trainee
with the practical side of the techniques he or she is studying.
Trainees are not to be used to compensate for shortages
of local labour.
To this end, both the trainee and the accepting company
or organization must fulfill a number of conditions.
Conditions for recognition as a bona
fide
"Industrial Training Program"
"Industrial Training Programs" must be designed to secure the
"transfer of technology, skills, and/or knowledge of industry
as a means of contributing to the development of the human and
industrial resources of other countries" in the manner outlined
above. In order to ensure that this objective is fulfilled, corporate
plans for the accepting of overseas trainees must meet the following
conditions.
- The technology, skills, and/or knowledge that the trainee is
to obtain in Japan must not be of the type that could be obtained
mostly through the repetition of simple work.
- The trainee is expected to engage in a job requiring the
technology, skills, and/or knowledge obtained in Japan after returning
to his or her country of nationality or habitual residence.
- The trainee must be at least 18 years of age.
- It must be impossible or difficult for the trainee to obtain
the desired technology, skills, and/or knowledge in the country
where he or she resides.
Conditions for the offering of
Industrial Training
Programs
Industrial Training Programs are divided into two broad categories: (1)
those that do not include OJT and (2) those that do.
| (1) |
In the case of Industrial Training Programs that do not include OJT,
there are no specific conditions imposed either on trainees or
on sending organizations (corporate or otherwise) other than
the three basic conditions mentioned above. |
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In the case of Industrial Training Programs that include OJT, a number
of conditions are imposed both on trainees and on sending and
accepting organizations (corporate or otherwise) in addition
to the three basic conditions mentioned above. Arrangements for
the acceptance of trainees fall into a number of typically
acceptable patterns (I, II, III), each of which is illustrated
in the chart on the following page. |
The above explanation provides a simple outline of the
essential features of the system whereby Japanese organizations
or companies may offer Industrial Training Programs for overseas nationals.
Types of training available with Japanese
companies
Training in Japanese companies may or may not include a period
of on-the-job training (OJT)*. In cases in which OJT is included
as part of a training program, the criteria for acceptance by
companies which have a capital or business relationship
with the sending organizations or companies and those which do
not may vary significantly.
* OJT (on-the-job training) is in other words IN-PLANT training
intended to impart the technology and skills through the production
and/or sale of goods or provision of services.
Re: OFFJT (off-the-job training) -- Language and Theoretical
Training
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