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Makoto Iwahashi, a counselor at Posse, a Tokyo-based NPO that supports foreign workers. He says there have recently been cases such as employees being forced to work in high places without lifelines or being sent to work sites without having received prior training.
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There are many small and midsize companies that regard foreigners as ‘cheap labor’ and will not spend even the minimum cost for their safety.
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sakurasuki
Because they are expandable from those company perspective, not only that they are useful when they are healthy and useful for those company, when that worker have incapacitated because work related injuries, those worker just being asked to quit and go home to their home country.
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20241121-223671/
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/Japan-Foreign-workers-accident-rate-in-workplace-reportedly-higher-than-that-of-local-workers/
Negative Nancy
Disgusting truths. Not cool, Japan.
smithinjapan
This is one reason why Japan is leading a list of human rights abusers when it comes to work trafficking. The government calls the program which brings them in the "internship program" and turns a blind eye to any and all abuses, even denying they knew when some incidents come to light, saying, "We do not handle to subcontractors so it is not our responsibility, but we promise an investigation so that the issue will not be repeated," etc., etc. Some people come here with the idea of a great opportunity to have a better living and make more money for family back home, and then they become trapped and saddled with debt so bad they have no hope of ever escaping.