Rather than relying on foreign "trainees" to compensate for labor shortages, Japan should establish apprenticeship programs to give citizens needed skills.
The Asahi Shimbun's online newsmagazine, Webronza, recently featured a conversation between former Asahi reporter Mieko Takenobu and sex-goods purveyor Minori Kitahara. They discussed the latter's brief imprisonment after being busted for displaying "salacious material" at her store associated with the controversial "vagina artist" Rokudenashiko. ...
A group of visa overstayers launched a month-long campaign Monday in which they will ask 36 local assemblies in the Kanto region for special permission to remain in the country legally. Spearheaded by the Asian People's Friendship Society, a nonprofit organization, the campaign includes 35 ...
The Justice Ministry is looking at ways to reform the long-criticized foreign trainee program, including whether to boost penalties for employers abuse trainees.
Japan decides to expand the abuse-tainted foreign trainee program in light of a labor shortage threatening construction projects for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Police comb a fishery company in Hiroshima Prefecture where a 30-year-old Chinese trainee allegedly murdered the president and a female employee and wounded six others.
