Five Cambodian trainees who were allegedly deceived by brokers and subjected to exploitative working conditions in Japan have been rescued and sent home with promises of compensation, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. In a statement, the ministry said the Cambodian Embassy in Tokyo, in cooperation ...
The list named six different East Asian countries and scored them based on eight categories such as religion, fondness for Japan and Japanese language capability.
Vietnam is now the biggest provider of labor to Japan under a government-sponsored training program for foreign workers. However, delays in expanding the system to include nursing care have made some young Vietnamese rethink their plans. Do Thi Hang is among them. At 23 and ...
Tang Xili came to Japan in 2013, hoping to earn enough in three years to build a new home for her daughter. Instead, she ended up in a labor union shelter after leaving an employer she says owes her about ¥3.5 million in unpaid ...
ANA Holdings Inc. will accept 15 Myanmar trainees starting at the end of this month to work in ground services at Narita airport, including in operating passenger boarding bridges and loading cargo. The major Japanese airline said this week it will train the workers at ...
Japan is considering expanding a controversial program that now offers workers from China and elsewhere permits to work for up to three years, as the world's fastest-aging nation scrambles to plug gaps in a rapidly shrinking workforce. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party on ...
Japan may let more foreign workers from Asia work at construction sites under an on-the-job training system ahead of the construction boom in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
