What conditions are needed to send Vietnamese workers to work in Japan?

Legal Consulting Office of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Clause 9, Article 1, Decree 372/2025/ND-CP (effective from January 1, 2026) amending Article 15, Decree 112/2021/ND-CP detailing a number of articles and measures to implement the Law on Vietnamese Workers going to work abroad under contract, stipulates as follows:

Article 15. Conditions for operating services to send Vietnamese workers to work in Japan

1. Enterprises that have been granted a License and have notified that they meet market conditions, industries, and occupations according to the provisions of Article 15a of this Decree.

2. Enterprises with professional staff with Japanese language proficiency at least N2 level (JLPT standard) or equivalent and experience in sending Vietnamese workers to work in Japan.

3. In case a business sends employees to work as caregivers in Japan, in addition to the conditions specified in Clause 1 and Clause 2 of this Article, the business needs to meet the following conditions:

a) Having teachers to train nursing skills for workers according to the Japanese program;

b) Having a training institution or a joint training institution of the enterprise with a vocational education institution with basic audio-visual equipment to serve Japanese language training, having a practice room equipped with wheelchairs, movement support frames, medical beds, tables and chairs, wall-mounted armrests, bath chairs, automatic bathtubs and toilet bowls and medical tool cabinets to serve nursing skills training for nurses according to the Japanese program".

Thus, from January 1, 2026, businesses sending Vietnamese workers to work in Japan need to meet the above conditions.

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