A record number of employers accepting trainees from abroad under the nation's Technical Intern Training Program violated labor laws in 2016, the labor ministry said Wednesday. The number of factories, offices and other businesses nationwide where violations were found came to 4,004, the highest level ...
The Justice Ministry on Friday revised rules to enforce a law enacted to improve the technical training program for foreign nationals in order to ensure they receive appropriate treatment and protections. The revisions are a follow up to a bill passed by the Diet last ...
Immigration officials said Wednesday that 383 acts of fraud were committed against foreign trainees in 2016, a record high since the intern training program was launched in 2010.
Workplaces that hire foreigners under a government-sponsored trainee program are set to come under greater scrutiny following the launch of a new oversight body aimed at stamping out human rights abuses. The body, set up on Wednesday in line with a law enacted in November, ...
The government will allow skilled non-Japanese to work in the agricultural sector in special economic zones to alleviate the farming labor shortage. "We have decided to add the employment of foreign workers in the agricultural sector ... to the menu for strategic special zones," Prime ...
The government moves to improve supervision of firms that accept workers from abroad amid widespread abuse.
Observers say this is another sign that the technical intern program — long criticized by rights groups at home and abroad as akin to slavery — is seriously flawed.
The government shouldn't use the trouble-plagued foreign trainee program to fill manpower shortages in the nursing care sector.
The bill is intended to shake up a state-sponsored foreign traineeship program slammed by critics as akin to modern slavery.
The 27-year-old man died just three months before he was to return home. Thanks to the ruling, his family is now eligible for government compensation.
The Cabinet approves the creation of a new visa category for foreign nurses and caregivers to help reduce the labor shortage in the industry.
If Japan needs foreign workers to fill its manpower needs, the government should consider a new system of accepting such labor on a longer-term basis rather than under the guise of an technical internship program.
