Tokyo money transfer company helping stranded Vietnamese

Why aren't the government and the Japanese companies involved in the trainee program paying the internees regular workers benefits, such as unemployment insurance? Sorry, folks, if you want to make big profits by paying rock-bottom wages to workers transplanted from the developing world, then you've got to accept the risk and take responsibility. Charitable temples and occasional individuals ain't enough in a supposed developed economy.

As for the Vietnamese who have been working in Japan illegally from the start, what can I say? You've chosen to go down a very risky path.

You've chosen to go down a very risky path.

Agreed, seems to me like a scam at both ends, employers scamming interns, agents scamming interns. Interns utterly exploited by everybody, yet they still want to come. What give?

From my experience working there, it appears to be a rather buoyant economy, and it wouldn't be difficult to start a small business, but the corrupt police always crack down on businesses that don't pay bribes.

They openly collect bribes too, I witnessed a collection whilst having lunch at a legit business with a shop front (but had illegal tables on the footpath). The shops that can't afford to pay had their tables confiscated by police thugs who damages tables and chairs then just leave them scattered on the footpaths.

I am guessing these Vietnamese workers are escaping persecution rather than trying to get training.

Good on them. These Vietnamese people definately aren’t getting any help from japan that’s for sure

Living in a foreign land is always risky regardless of the pandemic! If you are a foreigner in Japan just working from paycheck to paycheck and barely able to support yourself then you need to re-evaluate your life. Surely better options must be available in your home land or some other country.

Jim Jan. 1 10:14 am JST

Living in a foreign land is always risky regardless of the pandemic! If you are a foreigner in Japan just working from paycheck to paycheck and barely able to support yourself then you need to re-evaluate your life. Surely better options must be available in your home land or some other country.

This is true if one's homeland is a first world country (Canada, USA, UK, Australia...). Coming from Vietnam and other poor countries, this may not be the case. They may not even see a paycheck in poor countries.