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"Over the past 17 years, thousands of foreign workers have travelled to Japan, taking part in an official scheme to learn skills they cannot pick up in their own countries.
But this year the Japanese government's own experts have admitted that in many cases trainees are used as cheap labour.
The US state department has gone further. In its annual report on human trafficking, it said that "some migrant workers are reportedly subjected to conditions of forced labour through [its] foreign trainee programme";
Full story;
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japan scheme 'abuses foreign workers'
I find the latest story on this interesting but it does not suprise me. I think Japan has got to do something about its attitude and approach to foreign labour, however i am probably hypocritical because these problems are probably going on in my own country too (England).
For people that have has some experience of this problem, would you say that any particular type of foreign workers, lets say like the Chinese, are more abused by the system than other races?
What are your views on this article?
But this year the Japanese government's own experts have admitted that in many cases trainees are used as cheap labour.
The US state department has gone further. In its annual report on human trafficking, it said that "some migrant workers are reportedly subjected to conditions of forced labour through [its] foreign trainee programme";
Full story;
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japan scheme 'abuses foreign workers'
I find the latest story on this interesting but it does not suprise me. I think Japan has got to do something about its attitude and approach to foreign labour, however i am probably hypocritical because these problems are probably going on in my own country too (England).
For people that have has some experience of this problem, would you say that any particular type of foreign workers, lets say like the Chinese, are more abused by the system than other races?
What are your views on this article?