Kirk here. Yesterday, Atsuko wrote about the following tragedy:

Kirk here. Yesterday, Atsuko wrote about the following tragedy:

“Last November, a 21-year-old Vietnamese trainee was arrested for leaving the bodies of her baby twins in a cardboard box after giving birth in her dormitory in the town of Ashikita, Kumamoto Prefecture. ‘I thought I would be forced to return to Vietnam if the company found out I was pregnant,’ police quoted her saying.”

The following article also quotes Mr. Nakashima of Kumustaka:

“‘The supervising entities are required to inform trainees of their rights but “they are not doing enough,’ said Shinichiro Nakashima, head of Kumustaka, a Kumamoto-based nongovernment organization to support immigrants and other foreign workers.”