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Some 40 percent of highly skilled foreign workers choose to remain in Japan, a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show, with the relatively high rate benefitting the Asian nation struggling with a labor shortage.

Nirmal Singh and Shiv Kumar beat the odds on the Technical Intern Training Program, but luck shouldnt play such a key role in a government initiative.

This article asks how Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) has promoted a transfiguration of employer into predator who utilizes fraudulent economic strategies to exploit trainees under the abusive conditions. Situating Japan’s case within the global dynamics of temporary labor migration as well as drawing on the critical discussions about the ‘informal economy’, I argue that the formation and expansion of the unequal capital–labor power relations, facilitated by the proces...

If Japan does not want to lose its vital Vietnamese migrant labour, it needs to improve migrant conditions and opportunities.

TOKYO -- An expert government panel outlined plans to replace Japans foreign intern program with one more in line with reality in a report published Friday…

TOKYO -- An expert government panel outlined plans to replace Japan's foreign intern program with one more in line with reality in a report published

From the outset, it was never a case that warranted an arrest or criminal charges.

TOKYO -- Japans Supreme Court is set to review a Fukuoka High Court ruling that deemed a Vietnamese technical trainee guilty of abandoning the bodies

NAGOYA -- The former chair of a labor organization in Aichi Prefecture has released a book relating the stories of foreign trainees continued plight

Most foreign trainees who came to work in Japan paid some 520,000 yen ($3,800) on average to intermediaries in their home countries--expenses that saddled about half of them with sizable debts.