ASIC - Auto Service International Cooperative
Office : 424 Ni Aza Higashi Asahi-City Chiba
Telephone No.: +81-479-62-3411
Fax No.: +81-479-62-3610
Email : info@asic.vc
What is the Industrial Training Program? The main purpose of the Industrial Training Program is to accept young and middle-aged workers from overseas and support their efforts in acquiring Japanese industrial and vocational skills, techniques, and knowledge within about one year. The status of "Trainee" is defined in the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as those who undertake "Activities to learn and acquire technology, skills or knowledge at public or private organizations in Japan." Those who are going to receive the training in Japan need to obtain "Trainee" residential status, and those who are authorized to enter Japan under this status are known as a "Trainee" .
Training programs consist of "off-the-job training ( OFF-JT )" and "on-the-job training (ON-JT)". OFF-JT facilitates to make ON-JT for trainees as effective as possible. To be more precise, OFF-JT includes educating an approach to learning the Japanese language, the Japanese environment of daily life, the culture, and actual training, and which also includes basic knowledge concerning relevant industries or occupations, basic awareness about operational safety and health, making prototypes, and retail simulation. ON-JT provides opportunities to acquire technology, skills or knowledge in the real business environment, such as engaging in production at a production site, in sales or service occupation.
The main purpose of the Technical Internship Program is to enhance the technology, skills, and knowledge, which were acquired through the Industrial Training Program more pragmatically and practically, in an actual work environment; the maximum span for this program is three years, including the period for the Industrial Training Program .
If a trainee wishes to continue and become a technical intern, he/she is required to apply to the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization (JITCO) at least 3 months prior to completion of the training, to ask for its evaluation of his/her achievement(s) as a trainee. The trainee is required to exceed a certain level as a trainee, fulfill given conditions regarding his/her residential matters and TIP plan at the evaluation, and obtain the permission to change his/her status of residence to "Designated Activities" in order to participate in the TIP at the same work place where ITP was first provided. Trainees who obtain this status of residence are known as "Technical Interns. "
The period for TIP is approximately one and a half times more than ITP, but is less than 3 years for the two programs accumulated. (Certain types of jobs takes only up to two years). Accepting companies and technical trainees should enter into a labor contract because TIP is undertaken based upon an employment relationship. Labor related laws, such as the Labor Standards Law , the Minimum Wage Law , the Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance Law , and so on , are all applied to TIP trainees.
In cooperation with the Tesda Jitco Skills and Technology Transfer Project