Tokyo Metropolitan Government is offering a subsidy that helps small and midsize companies cover the housing and living costs of foreign interns, but the money only flows to firms already accepted into the city's own internship-placement programme.
The Advanced Human Resources Internship Hosting Support Subsidy targets small and midsize businesses that have already secured a placement through Tokyo's Advanced Human Resources Internship programme, which matches employers with foreign professionals living overseas who want to work in Japan. The subsidy does not fund the search for talent itself. It reimburses hosts for two specific costs once a placement is arranged: providing lodging and paying a living allowance to the intern for roughly three months. The programme notice indicates other conditions apply beyond having a confirmed placement, though the excerpt supplied to Tokyo Brief does not spell out what those conditions are.
The subsidy operates under its own dedicated award guidelines and is run in connection with a Tokyo-organized internship initiative. The official text obtained by Tokyo Brief cuts off mid-sentence at the point where it states the subsidy's maximum award, so no ceiling figure or reimbursement rate can be confirmed from the excerpt.
For a small Tokyo employer, the practical effect is a partial offset against the cost of housing and supporting a foreign intern for a three-month placement, so long as that employer has already cleared the separate hurdle of being accepted into the city's internship-matching programme.