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 ...

As the investment banking industry grapples with cultural issues and lingering concerns about work-life balance, Citigroup’s Australia corporate and investment banking boss Tony Osmond said it was ...

Just as the government's amendment to the immigration control law lifting the official ban on simple foreign labor is deliberated in the Diet, the problems in the foreign technical intern program — ...

I created both the summer intern program, and the semesterly co-op program, which are those longer engagements, but typically less than 9 months, and usually 3-6. I have presented it to the executive ...