Kirk here sharing something that is related to Japan’s “foreign trainee” issue. It’s not about something that happened in Kumamoto but the basic issue of problems with the trainee (jisshuusei; 実習生) program is a topic we’ve discussed on this page. The article includes a link to a shocking video of highly abusive treatment of a “trainee” from Vietnam that occurred in Okayama.
By the way, I’ve been meaning to post about a seminar I attended on the case Ms. Le Thi Thuy Linh, the Kumamoto resident who is appealing her conviction for “abandoning” her two stillborn babies to Japan’s Supreme Court. There’s no direct connection to the Okayama case, but it may be another opportunity to observe the extent to which Vietnamese trainees can or cannot get justice in Japan. At any rate, I’ll try to post my report about the seminar soon.
