The government’s plan to create a new system to allow Japanese companies to hire foreign workers should be a clear break from the notorious technical intern program, which has been criticized for ...

Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa pledged on July 29 to seek a “historical resolution” of the many issues and problems facing technical intern trainees in Japan. “We will work to create a framework ...

Top Japanese shipbuilder Imabari Shipbuilding lost its official certification for foreign technical intern programs for violating the industrial safety and health law, the Immigration Services Agency ...

This study aims to describe the history of the Technical Intern Training Program. Since its establishment in the early 1990s, this program has expanded and become indispensable for small and ...