It isn’t good for students to spend so much time working part time that it affects their studies. Please choose a line of work that suits you, consider how it relates to your studies, and keep the number of hours you work to a minimum. (There are other restrictions for international students.)

From Shigotoba, a website that provides information about part-time job openings to Kanazawa University students:

	Specific examples		Reasons and other information
Dangerous	1	Operation of press, drilling machine, lathe, cutting machine, grass cutter, or other automatic machine	Sometimes possible if operation is via buttons, and the hand does not touch the machine directly.
	2	Handling of or work in the vicinity of hazards such as high voltage or high-pressure gas (including work as an assistant)	A license is needed, and the degree of danger is high.
	3	Driving vehicle such as a car or motorcycle	Highly dangerous, the financial/psychological cost of causing an accident is excessive, and criminal liability is a possibility.
	4	Work within vehicle lanes on roads with heavy traffic	Possible if traffic is restricted while the work is being carried out, and if it is not dangerous.
	5	On-site construction, water supply, etc. work	Assistive work sometimes possible if safety can be confirmed.
	6	On-site construction/demolition work, clearing away of building materials	Interior decoration work possible.
	7	Work 2m or more above the ground (window cleaning, equipment installation, etc.)	Highly dangerous due to risk of falls and falling objects.
	8	Security guard, night watchman, traffic controller	Venue organization, guidance to visitors, reception desk work sometimes possible if not hired directly by a security company. (Working for a security company is not allowed as the Security Services Act applies.) (Working for a security company is not allowed as the Security Services Act applies.)"
Harmful to health	1	Handling of harmful chemicals such as agricultural fertilizers and pesticides	Preparation/assistance possible
	2	Work in exceedingly high-temperature, high-humidity environments
	3	Work in environments with high levels of dust, powder, toxic fumes, noise, etc.	Likely to be hazardous to human health.
	4	Participation in clinical trials of pharmaceuticals etc.
Illegal	1	Risk of involvement in labor dispute	See Article 20 of the Employment Security Act.
	2	Mediation for for-profit staffing agency, mediation for unauthorized staff dispatcher that does not present authorization number	Goes against the spirit of the Employment Security Act (mediation of establishment of employment relationships) and Worker Dispatching Act.
	3	Involvement in multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes	See the Act on Prevention of Pyramid Schemes.
	4	Payment based on commission with no minimum salary	See Article 27 of the Labor Standards Act.
	5	Job where worker can be expected to have to pay penalties or compensation	See Article 16 of the Labor Standards Act.
	6	obs that target only men or only women in recruitment/hiring	See Article 5 of the Equal Opportunity Act.
	7	Jobs that set a limit on the number of men and the number of women to be recruited/hired	See Article 5 of the Equal Opportunity Act.
	8	Jobs that apply different conditions to men and women in recruitment/hiring	Same as above.
Unsuitable from an educational standpoint	1	On-street distribution of flyers or sticking up of posters without authorization	Possible if there are no problems with content and permission has been obtained.
	2	Surveys large numbers of unspecified persons in the street or by visiting their homes, surveys with problematic content	The other party is often put under pressure, and this is a frequent cause of problems.
	3	Door-to-door sales, solicitation, full-time money collection
	4	On-site work at venues where gambling is taking place, such as a horse and bicycle race tracks
	5	On-site work at businesses in or related to the entertainment trade such as bars, cabaret clubs, and pachinko parlors	Including places that serve alcohol late into the night.
	6	Late-night work for a week or more	Risk of harm to health.
	7	All operations related to supporting election candidates	Often a breach of the Public Offices Election Act. Supporting a particular party or candidate is undesirable.
	8	Privacy-related investigations
	9	Selling in the open air or from stalls	The shop location isn’t fixed.
	10	Performing credit checks and issuing reminders to repay loans or credit-card debt
Undesirable recruitment practices	1	Jobs expected to affect human life	Swimming instructor, life guard, baby sitter, etc.
	2	Jobs where the working conditions are unclear	Jobs where wages, hours, place of work, nature of work, wage payment method, etc. have not been clearly stated.
	3	Jobs for which a certain number of people must be hired	For example, if even one person out of ten cannot be hired, none of the other nine will be hired. Undesirable recruitment practices
	4	Even when students are introduced, recruitment is repeated for no good reason.
	5	Jobs for which registration is required	Employment is unstable, and sometimes costs money.
	6	Teacher at tutoring school that has been in operation for less than one year or concludes contracts that are disadvantageous to students
	7	Introduction to company that dispatches home tutors
	8	Job that makes students bear responsibility for accidents on the job
	9	Other jobs deemed to be extremely undesirable	For example, only part-timers have to wait in line for shifts.