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Japan's justice minister on Tuesday ordered the immigration agency to investigate violent workplace abuse allegedly suffered by a Vietnamese intern in a case that has heightened scrutiny of a state-s…

Japan's justice minister on Tuesday ordered the immigration agency to investigate violent workplace abuse allegedly suffered by a Vietnamese intern in a case that has heightened scrutiny of a state-sponsored training program. A video appearing to show the man being punched, kicked and...

IT’S the winter of discontent; at least for Filipinos in France, Italy, Japan and Spain. The states governing these labor-receiving countries have reciprocated the warm hospitality and sedulousness of Filipino workers. “People here are more ‘chill,’” observed Leonor Dimaculangan who’s just on her fourth month in Spain after moving from…

The country’s new entry measures — which together with Israel are among the world’s most stringent — mean that from Tuesday all new visitors are barred from entry.

With everything from the pandemic to nuclear power weighing on voters' minds, there has been increased discussion about the direction that Japan should take.

The situation of technical interns in Japan was already hard. For many, the situation has now become desperate.

Although the government has taken some measures to support foreign nationals unable to return to their countries because of the pandemic, many were not eligible.

Vietnamese trainee uninformed of Japan laws indicted for corpse abandonment of own babies April 26, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) A Vietnamese technical intern talks about her deceased twins at a press conference in Kumamoto Prefectures capital city of Kumamoto on April 24, 2021. (Mainichi/Takehiro Higuchi) KUMAMOTO -- A Vietnamese national in Japans Technical Intern Training Program who was arrested and indicted on charges of abandoning the corpses of twin boys to whom she had given birth said th...

Japan to ramp up human trafficking measures Japans labor ministry has decided to ramp up measures to prevent human trafficking that involves foreign technical interns working in Japan. As of June of last year, there were about 400,000 foreign workers in Japan who had come to the country in the Technical Intern Training Program. The labor ministry says there were cases in which trainees were forced to work for long hours at lower wages and virtually barred from escaping. Last m...

news Editorial: Japans immigration law draft revisions lack human rights considerations The Mainichi © The Mainichi Proposals for amendments to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act were approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Feb. 19. The aim is said to be to end the long-term detentions of foreign nationals on immigration violations. However, the draft revisions make controls on the residency of foreign nationals even stricter, by thoroughly...