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Foreign trainee slain, colleague wounded in rural Ibaraki attack

Kyodo, Staff Report

MITO, IBARAKI PREF. – Two Chinese men taking part in a foreign trainee program on a farm in Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture, were attacked by a group of men with knives Sunday evening, leaving one dead and the other wounded, police said.

Sun Wenjun, 33, was pronounced dead at a hospital and the other man, identified only as being 32 years old, was being treated for his wounds, the police said.

They were attacked by several men, apparently non-Japanese, at around 9:50 p.m. near the farm. The two were riding bicycles on their way from the home of an acquaintance about 1.5 km from the farm.

A kitchen knife with bloodstains was found near the scene, NHK reported.

The surviving trainee was quoted as saying the men came out of nowhere, attacked with knives and left in a car.

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  • Ron NJ

    The foreign traineehuman slavery program should be ended immediately. It has little to no oversight and gross abuses are widespread and pervasive; furthermore, the “trainees” are rarely actually given any training but rather worked (nb not employed, lest they be covered by labor laws, which they are not) in menial manual labor or repetitious factory roles, none of which are even remotely beneficial in terms of providing these workers skills so that they can provide for themselves after their participation in the program has finished/they have been deported at the behest of their overseers/etc.