A recruiter of foreign trainees was widely criticized this week for publishing a list on its website that evaluated the "potential" of interns in the nursing care industry based on nationality.
The Kagawa Prefecture-based Kokusai Jigyo Kenkyu Kyodo Kumiai, roughly translated as "Cooperative Association for International Operation Research," has since removed the list from its site.
The list named six different East Asian countries — Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines — and scored them based on eight categories such as religion, fondness for Japan, Japanese language capability and level of morality.