No. of foreign trainees in Japan falls for 1st time amid pandemic

The number of foreign technical trainees working in Japan declined for the first time in October last year, down 12.6 percent year-on-year due to tighter border controls amid the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Friday.But the overall number of foreign workers, including technical trainees, hit a record 1.72 million. Nevertheless, the figure, recorded since 2007 when the government began requiring employers to register such workers, only increased 0.2 percent from a year earlier.The number of trainees from developing countries under Japan's technical intern program, which has be…READ FULL ARTICLE