Why do some foreign trainees in Japan abandon their babies?
December 29, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)
Work equipment found at the Vietnamese technical trainee s home is seen here in this photo taken in the Kumamoto Prefecture town of Ashikita on Dec. 16, 2020. Those around her considered her a hard worker. (Mainichi/Yuki Kurisu) KUMAMOTO There have been numerous incidents in which women who are in Japan as participants in the government s Technical Intern Training Program have abandoned their babies after giving birth. After a 21-year-old Vietnamese trainee who worked on a tangerine farm was arrested for deserting twins, she told her attorney that she had had no one to turn to. Why did the woman, who was indicted on Dec. 10, 2020, feel she had no choice but to hide her pregnancy?