About 20 foreign workers and their supporters staged a sit-in Tuesday in front of the Diet to demand that bills to revise the immigration law be scrapped.
The bills, now before the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee, would put a greater burden on foreign workers and violate their rights, participants at the sit-in argued.
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