 | TOKYO -- From factories to farms, foreign "trainees" provide a precious source of labor in graying Japan.
The easing of COVID-19-related restrictions on entering the country has reopened this path to work. But it has also brought an increase in alleged abuses like unpaid wages that dogged the program even before the pandemic.
"We are receiving 10 or more complaints a day from foreign interns who have finally come to Japan and started working," said Jiho Yoshimizu, head of a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization that provides help to Vietnamese interns.
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