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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 Prefecture's capital city of Kumamoto on April 24, 2021. (Mainichi/Takehiro Higuchi) KUMAMOTO -- A Vietnamese national in Japan's 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 that she had been afraid that she would be forced to return to her home country if others found out ...

Japan to ramp up human trafficking measures Japan's 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 month, the ministry sent a notice to local labor bureaus instructing them to step up measures agains...

news Editorial: Japan's 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 implementing forcible repatriation of those found to be in Japan illegally, and establishing punis...