Both employers and workers are jointly responsible for paying the insurance fees for the employment insurance system, whereby a worker, should he or she lose his or her job, can receive unemployment benefits for a fixed period of time, allowing him or her to feel at ease while searching for a new job/
Employment insurance also applies to foreigners if they are workers. For details, please consult your nearest Hello Work office. Part-time employees are also applicable if the employment had been forecast to last over one year, with the worker working more than 20 hours a week.
The nature of employment insurance means that persons over the age of 65 are excluded.

As a general principle, in order to receive unemployment benefits (basic allowance), a person must have been an insured person for a period of at least six months during the one-year period prior to the day when he or she left employment.
If you bring the following necessary documents to the Hello Work office in the area where you reside, put in an application to be a jobseeker, and the decision is made that you are qualified to be a recipient, you will be authorized as unemployed. Following this, you should appear at the Hello Work office on designated days (once every 28 days).
The specific period over which you can receive unemployment benefits and the amount of such benefits is determined depending on the period which is applicable for employment insurance, the sum of your salary, your age and the reasons why you left employment.