Vietnamese trainee made to engage in decontamination work in Fukushima

More slave labor from this shameful WW2 era trainee program. And Japan wants to go before the world stage and proclaim it respects human rights. HA!

Awful. But, why didn't he realise sooner? I would have put two and two together on day one, or even before, had I seen the location of where I would be working.

This beggar's belief.

Asian labour has been used before in the maintenance and cleaning of nuclear power plants, as they did not have the limit to absorbing radiation that Japanese had, and could thus work longer. The usual denial from the nuclear village, as it was arranged by the layer of sub-contractors.

So... was he the only person doing this work?

The Vietnamese said a construction company in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, hired him as a trainee, but did not tell him the work involved removing decontaminated material from around where the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan in March 2011.

An utterly disgraceful deceptive act. Have they no shame?

the work involved removing decontaminated material

I believe that should be 'contaminated material'.

Japanese businessmen are just scoundrels of the very worst kind. They exploit, bully and lie to everybody, not just foreign trainees. And, the lies and corruption go all the way to the top.

@Zichi - The ¥2,000/day for 8 hours would be less than the min hourly rate which he could get for working in a convenience store.

That is 'danger money' paid on top of the normal salary. However, it is supposed to be ¥6,600, which I have no doubt the contractor was claiming and pocketing. Just low-life thieving scoundrels! TIJ!

Thus the true intention of the trainee program emerges

Should go to the international court. Let other gov’ts see what’s going on here with lax gov’t regulations & all but I don’t care, turn a blind eye toward the poor innocent Japanese companies just doing their nationalistic duty.

It is a well-known and documented fact that the Japanese "trainee" program is a front for labor-trafficking, and Japan is still one of the world's foremost offenders in trafficking of what is basically slave labor. The government has been warned time and again by human rights organizations and the like and so changed the name a few times and the rules, but has never enforced and always claimed they cannot control sub-contractors, etc. It is government sponsored slave labor and trafficking for said labor, period. This Vietnamese man is one case in likely THOUSANDS, and it will be fobbed off as "we didn't know and will do our utmost to ensure transparency and make efforts to see it is not repeated", with no punishment at all, and no recompense. The man will not be allowed to stay on any longer than usual, and more than likely sent home right away so the government can keep quiet more easily. TIJ

This is the tip of the iceberg!

I’ve met Afghanis that were working in Fukushima!

It proved not to be a popular place as everybody appeared to be masked up, so it was obvious to those I spoke to that there was an attempt to prevent contact with contamination!

transferring skills?

I think he could have learned how to shovel in his own country.

Simple. If they don't want to work there they dont have too. This event is well known around the world. Not a secret.

AlexBecu - I agree with your statement - " ...This event is well known around the world. Not a secret.."

I think Smithy explained it clearly -

"...smithinjapanMar. 15 11:32 pm JST    It is a well-known and documented fact that the Japanese "trainee" program is a front for labor-trafficking, and Japan is still one of the world's foremost offenders in trafficking of what is basically slave labor. The government has been warned time and again by human rights organizations and the like and so changed the name a few times and the rules, but has never enforced and always claimed they cannot control sub-contractors, etc. It is government sponsored slave labor and trafficking for said labor, period......"

But I'm not sure if the real extent of organised crime / yakuzas involvement in the re-construction / clean up of Fukushima etc is globally known. That would be a surprise.

This is a crime known as 'Deception'! He should come back to contact the japanese police!

This is the purest definition of slavery. Brought from one's native land with lying promises (streets of gold, riches, more colourful cloth) to do work that the people who did the lying don't want to do (plantation work, radiation work in this case). This is absolutely atrocious. What a shame!