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 service activities to send Vietnamese workers to work in Japan

1. Businesses are granted Licenses and have been notified to meet market conditions, industries, and occupations as prescribed in Article 15a of this Decree.

2. Enterprises with professional staff with Japanese proficiency level N2 (JLPT standard) or equivalent and experience in the field of 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 Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article, the business must meet the following conditions:

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

b) Having a training institution or a training linkage institution of a business 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, dining tables and chairs, wall-attached armrests, bathtubs, automatic bathtubs and medical tool cabinets to serve nursing professional skills training 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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