Japan makes consultation app for foreign trainees
Japan s labor ministry and other entities have jointly developed a smartphone app that allows foreign technical trainees to seek consultation about their work environments.
Japan has a system designed to enable trainees from developing countries to learn skills, technologies, and expertise while working in the country. As of the end of last year, Japan had more than 370,000 such trainees.
The Organization for Technical Intern Training, or OTIT, offers consultation to trainees in their native languages regarding matters such as violence or excessively long work hours. It gave advice in about 7,400 cases in the fiscal year through March 2020.
Producer The president of my company asked me in Japanese if I would swallow his sperm. I didn t understand what he meant. But when I got home, I looked up the word in my dictionary. I felt sad and humiliated.
That, says one 30-year-old Vietnamese woman, is when her traineeship in Japan began to fall apart. She spoke to NHK on the condition of anonymity.
The woman came to the country in the summer of 2018 and began to work for a construction company. She had been told that her job would involve inspecting products. Instead, she was assigned to actually assemble steel bars at construction sites. But that wasn t the worst of it. Most of her colleagues were men, and the sexual harassment began almost immediately. Her supervisors, and even the president of the company, would touch her inappropriately and force her to watch pornography.
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