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Japan: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and Human Rights Now survey shows most Japanese apparel companies fall short on human rights
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UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders' global survey highlights role of cos. in attacks in several countries
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Japan: Foreign workers face double risk of work related deaths compared to Japanese
Government data shows that 30 foreign worker ‘trainees’ in Japan under the Technical Trainee Internship Programme (TITP) died in Labour Ministry recognized work related deaths over the four year period of 2014 - 2017. This comes to an average of 3.64...
Japan: 69 foreign 'interns' died between 2015-2017
Documents submitted by the government to parliament show that 69 foreign workers in Japan under the Technical Trainee Internship Programme (TITP) died between 2015 and 2017. Six of the deaths were suicides. The government has refused to provide more...
Japan: Foreign workers ordered to terminate pregnancies or go home
Reports are coming to light of foreign workers in Japan as part of the Technical Trainee Internship Programme (TITP) being prohibited by their employers from ‘romantic relations’, and being fined for having become pregnant while in Japan. One ‘intern’...