Panel to suggest ending Japan's controversial 'trainee' scheme

Apr 11 (breitbart.com) - A Japanese government panel is set to recommend the closure of a controversial vocational training scheme for young people from developing countries, an immigration official said Tuesday.

The country’s “technical intern” programme was launched three decades ago and has long been criticised by campaigners as a hotbed of abuse and discrimination.

The scheme is supposed to offer skills to overseas “trainees” in sectors such as construction, agriculture and food processing.

But Japanese firms have been accused of treating participants as cheap, temporary workers, some of whom take on huge debts to come to Japan.

Draft recommendations by an immigration agency expert panel called for replacing the system with one that recognises Japan’s need for labour and its wish to train people from less developed countries, the official told AFP. ...continue reading

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