Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (these “Terms”) set forth the conditions for using “Ryukatsu,” which is operated by Originator Co., Ltd. Please read these Terms before using the Service.

Article 1 (Purpose and Application)

1. These Terms set forth the conditions for using “Ryukatsu,” a job-search support service for international students and others operated by Originator Co., Ltd. (the “Company”) (including the website, the LINE official account operated by the Company under the name “Ryukatsu,” and other related services; collectively, the “Service”).
2. These Terms apply to all persons who use the Service (including, in addition to Members, persons who browse the Service without registering as Members and persons who access the Service using programs, AI agents, or the like; collectively, “Users”). By using the Service, Users are deemed to have agreed to these Terms.
3. Where a hiring company, school, or other entity has entered into a separate agreement with the Company, the provisions of that agreement shall prevail over these Terms with respect to that entity’s use of the Service.
4. The handling of personal information in the Service is governed by the Company’s separately established Privacy Policy and is not addressed in these Terms.

Article 2 (Definitions)

In these Terms, the following terms have the meanings set forth below.

1. “Member” means an individual who has completed Member registration pursuant to Article 4.
2. “Listed Company” means a company or other organization that posts job openings, company information session details, or similar information on the Service.
3. “Listed Information” means job postings, company information, information on information sessions and seminars, text, images, and any other information posted on or provided through the Service, as well as any compilations thereof.
4. “Undisclosed Company” means a Listed Company whose name the Company withholds in its listings at the request of that Listed Company.
5. “Confidential Information” means (i) the name of an Undisclosed Company and any other information that could identify an Undisclosed Company; (ii) Listed Information that is provided only after a Member logs in; and (iii) unpublished information about a Listed Company that a Member learns through applications, the selection process, company information sessions, or the like.
6. “Automated Collection” means collecting, copying, extracting, or analyzing Listed Information using crawlers, scraping tools, bots, browser extensions, AI agents, the browsing functions of generative AI, or any other program.

Article 3 (Content of the Service)

1. As a fee-charging employment placement business operator (Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare License No. 13-ユ-300900), the Company provides, through the Service, job postings, employment placement, the organization of and information on company information sessions and job-hunting seminars, and other job-search support.
2. Members may use the Service free of charge.
3. The Company does not guarantee any outcome of a Member’s job search, including being hired or receiving a job offer.

Article 4 (Member Registration)

1. Any person wishing to register as a Member shall apply by the method prescribed by the Company after agreeing to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Registration is completed when the Company approves the application.
2. A minor who wishes to register as a Member must obtain the consent of their legal guardian.
3. The Company may decline to approve the registration of an applicant who falls under any of the following. In such a case, the Company has no obligation to disclose its reasons for not approving the registration.
   1. The application contains false information, errors, or omissions.
   2. The applicant has previously had their membership revoked due to a violation of these Terms or the like.
   3. The application is made for the purpose of engaging in any of the acts listed in Article 8, Paragraph 1, or is made by a person engaged in a business that competes with the Company, or by an officer or employee of such a person, for the purposes of that business.
   4. The Company otherwise reasonably determines that the registration is inappropriate.
4. If any of their registered information changes, Members shall promptly update it by the method prescribed by the Company.

Article 5 (Account Management)

1. Members are responsible for managing their own login ID and password and shall not allow any third party to use them, nor lend, transfer, or sell them to any third party.
2. Any use of the Service made with a registered login ID and password is deemed to be use by the Member to whom they belong.
3. If a Member becomes aware that their login ID or password may be being used by a third party, the Member shall immediately notify the Company and follow the Company’s instructions.

Article 6 (Applications and Selection)

1. Members may apply for job openings of Listed Companies by the method prescribed by the Company. After confirming the Member’s intention to apply, the Company will recommend the Member to the Listed Company.
2. During the selection period, scheduling and other communications with the Listed Company shall, as a rule, be conducted through the Company.
3. When applying and during the selection process, Members shall submit true and accurate information regarding their educational background, work history, qualifications, language ability, and other background.
4. When a Member decides to accept or decline a job offer, the Member shall promptly notify the Company.

Article 7 (Handling of Confidential Information)

1. Members shall use Confidential Information solely for the purpose of their own job search and shall not disclose or leak it to any third party without the Company’s prior consent; provided, however, that this does not apply to disclosure to family members, the career support staff of the school the Member attends, or other persons, to the extent necessary to seek advice about the Member’s own job search.
2. Even in the cases covered by the proviso to the preceding paragraph, Members shall not publish information linking the name of an Undisclosed Company to a job posting on the Service through social media, review sites, online forums, or any other means accessible to an unspecified or large number of people.
3. The obligations under this Article survive a Member’s withdrawal or loss of membership.

Article 8 (Prohibited Acts)

1. In using the Service, Users shall not engage in any of the following acts:
   1. Acts that violate laws and regulations or public order and morals
   2. Registering or submitting false information, or impersonating another person
   3. Obtaining Listed Information through Automated Collection; provided, however, that this excludes collection by a search engine operator for the purpose of providing general search services in accordance with the directives in the Company’s robots.txt
   4. Using Listed Information, or allowing any third party to use it, for the development, training, evaluation, or tuning of artificial intelligence (including machine learning models, large language models, and the like), for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or for the creation of any other dataset
   5. Inferring, analyzing, or identifying an Undisclosed Company by entering information into generative AI or other tools, cross-referencing it with other information, or any other means, or disclosing the results to any third party or using them for sales activities or any other purpose
   6. Collecting or using Listed Information, or contacting Listed Companies, for the purpose of employment placement, job advertising, recruitment support, or any other business that competes with the Company
   7. Copying, republishing, modifying, transmitting to the public, selling, or lending all or any part of the Listed Information, or building a database from it, without the Company’s prior written consent
   8. Circumventing or disabling access restrictions, login authentication, robots.txt, rate limits, or any other technical measures implemented by the Company
   9. Placing an excessive load on the servers or network of the Service, unauthorized access, or any other act that interferes with or may interfere with the operation of the Service
   10. Defaming the Company, Listed Companies, other Users, or any other third party, or infringing their honor, reputation, privacy, or other rights or interests
   11. Engaging in sales, solicitation, or similar activities unrelated to job searching toward persons whom the User has met through the Service
   12. Causing any third party to engage in, or assisting in, any of the acts listed in the preceding items
   13. Any other act that the Company reasonably determines to be inappropriate
2. A Member’s use of generative AI for their own job search, such as to translate or summarize Listed Information or to prepare application documents, does not constitute an act under Item (4) or (5) of the preceding paragraph, unless it is done for the purpose of identifying an Undisclosed Company.

Article 9 (Intellectual Property Rights)

1. Copyrights and other intellectual property rights in Listed Information belong to the Company or the legitimate rights holders.
2. The body of job postings collected, selected, and compiled by the Company is an important business asset of the Company, and Users may not use it beyond the scope permitted under these Terms (namely, viewing and use by an individual for their own job search).

Article 10 (Listed Information and External Sites)

1. Listed Information is prepared based on information provided by Listed Companies and other sources. Although the Company endeavors to keep Listed Information accurate and up to date, it may differ from actual conditions due to changes in circumstances after posting or for other reasons. Please confirm working conditions in the written terms provided by the Listed Company at the time of a job offer or similar stage.
2. Where the Service links to external websites, use of those websites is governed by their own terms and policies, and the Company is not responsible for their content.

Article 11 (Changes to, Suspension of, and Termination of the Service)

1. The Company may change the content of the Service or terminate the provision of the Service. In the case of a termination that would significantly affect Members, the Company will give notice on the Service a reasonable period in advance.
2. The Company may temporarily suspend all or part of the Service in the event of system maintenance, system failures, natural disasters, or other unavoidable circumstances.

Article 12 (Measures in the Event of a Violation)

1. If the Company determines that a User has violated or is likely to violate these Terms, the Company may take any of the following measures without prior notice:
   1. Restricting or blocking access to the Service
   2. Suspending application and recommendation procedures
   3. Temporarily suspending or revoking membership
   4. Demanding the deletion and cessation of use of Listed Information obtained in violation of these Terms
   5. Any other measures that the Company deems necessary
2. The Company shall not be liable for any damage incurred by a User as a result of the measures under the preceding paragraph, except in cases of willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Company.

Article 13 (Withdrawal)

1. Members may withdraw from membership at any time by the method prescribed by the Company.
2. The handling of personal information after withdrawal is governed by the Privacy Policy.

Article 14 (Disclaimer and Damages)

1. The Company does not warrant that the Service is free from any factual or legal defects (including defects relating to safety, reliability, accuracy, completeness, effectiveness, fitness for a particular purpose, and security).
2. Any selection process, employment contract, or other transaction or dispute between a Member and a Listed Company shall be resolved between the parties concerned, and the Company shall not be liable for it except where caused by the Company’s willful misconduct or negligence.
3. Where the Company is liable to a User for damages, except in cases of willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Company, such liability is limited to direct and ordinary damages actually incurred by the User.
4. If a User causes damage to the Company by violating these Terms, the User shall compensate the Company for that damage (including damage arising from the loss of business with Listed Companies, investigation costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees).

Article 15 (Exclusion of Antisocial Forces)

1. Users represent and warrant that, now and in the future, they do not fall under, and have no relationship with, any of the following: an organized crime group (boryokudan), a member of an organized crime group, a person for whom five years have not yet passed since ceasing to be a member of an organized crime group, a quasi-member of an organized crime group, a company affiliated with an organized crime group, a corporate racketeer (sokaiya) or the like, a group engaging in criminal activities under the pretext of social movements, a crime group specializing in intellectual crimes, or any other person equivalent to any of the foregoing (collectively, “Antisocial Forces”).
2. If a User breaches the preceding paragraph, the Company may revoke the User’s membership without any prior notice.

Article 16 (Amendment of These Terms)

1. The Company may amend these Terms pursuant to Article 548-4 of the Civil Code of Japan in any of the following cases:
   1. When the amendment conforms to the general interests of Users
   2. When the amendment does not run counter to the purpose of these Terms and is reasonable in light of the necessity of the amendment, the appropriateness of the amended content, and other circumstances relating to the amendment
2. When amending these Terms under the preceding paragraph, the Company will give notice of the content of the amended Terms and their effective date by posting them on the Service a reasonable period of time before the effective date.

Article 17 (Language)

The Japanese version of these Terms is the authoritative text. Where the Company provides a translation in English or any other language, the translation is for reference only, and in the event of any discrepancy between a translation and the Japanese version, the Japanese version shall prevail.

Article 18 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction)

These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan, and the Tokyo District Court shall have exclusive agreed jurisdiction as the court of first instance over any dispute arising in connection with these Terms or the Service.

Supplementary Provision
These Terms take effect on October 20, 2026.

Originator Co., Ltd.
6F monparte Kitasando, 4-19-12 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan