Gov't bans firm from accepting foreign trainees after assault case

The Japanese government revoked Friday a construction firm's permit to accept foreign technical trainees after a Vietnamese man suffered serious injuries as a result of assaults by Japanese coworkers for about two years.The firm called Six Create in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan is prohibited from accepting technical trainees for the next five years under the administrative punishment issued by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan and the labor ministry."Acts of human rights violation against technical trainees must never take place," Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said at a …READ FULL ARTICLE