thousand nine hundred three as a scheme to provide skills training to workers from developing countries but the system has been abused and trainees routinely find themselves at the receiving end of ill treatment. the dings of lives cut short and dreams interrupted. around one hundred forty line the altar at this buddhist temple in tokyo lives marked by overwork illness even suicide. now all she can do is pray. but this nun has listened to such stories over and over again and her work counseling laborers from her native vietnam who. meet with the families were so proud of their sons and daughters studying and working in japan they had many hopes instead what they got in the end where there remains their memorial plaques and