FOCUS: Moment of truth as Japan eyes review of foreign trainee workers

Desperate to secure labor for his small factory, Toshiaki Funakubo turned to Chinese "trainees," who came to Japan to acquire technical expertise and skills, for about two decades until around 2010, the time when China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest economy.

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