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

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KUMAMOTO--A Filipina technical intern who said she was told to quit and return home when she became pregnant filed a lawsuit against a social welfare corporation in Fukuoka Prefecture and a supervisory organization in Oita Prefecture.

When a Vietnamese technical intern in western Japan was thrown out of his workplaces dorm in the summer of 2021, he sought help from a government-app

The Japanese government is conducting a survey to determine whether foreign technical trainees have been forced by employers or intermediary groups to leave the country because they fell pregnant or gave birth.

The Japanese government is conducting a survey to determine whether foreign technical trainees have been forced by employers or intermediary groups to leave the country because they fell pregnant or gave birth.

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa recently announced that the government will start discussions with an eye to reviewing the Technical Inte

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.

Harassment and other abuses of foreign trainees in Japan are mounting, arousing criticism that the supervisory agency in charge of the government-sponsored technical internship program has failed in its role to oversee the program. According to support groups, investigations into companies that...