A Japanese human rights lawyer...labelled a government-backed foreign trainee programme as a "form of human trafficking", saying dozens had died from apparent overwork. Japan has invited tens of thousands of foreigners for industrial training programmes as low-wage apprentices, mostly from China, Indonesia and the Philippines...Amid rising concern over abuses, the lawyer said that a record 35 workers from Asia had died in Japan in the year to March 2009 alone. The Japan International Training Cooperation Organization (JITCO), which oversees the programmes...was not immediately available for comment...