Rows of wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with names line an altar at a Buddhist...
TOKYO - Rows of wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with names line an altar at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, silent testimony to Vietnamese people who died after coming to Japan to work or study.
Many of the 140 Vietnamese whose names are on the tablets came to Japan on a “technical trainee” program that acts as a back door to blue-collar jobs in a country where immigration is a touchy subject. Others came as students and worked part time.Debate over the new visa program highlighted problems with the trainee system such as overwork, unpaid wages and harassment.
“Their families back home also had hopes for them,” she said. “They were so proud and bragged about their sons and daughters to their neighbors in the countryside.” “I agreed for her to go because the income is a little higher than in Vietnam. If I knew that my decision would lead to this, I never would have dared to let her go to work like that,” her husband, Vu Ngoc Thuy, told Reuters at his home.
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