Japan looks to scrap foreign trainee program for new system

A Japanese government panel plans to propose scrapping the country's controversial trainee program for foreigners and creating a new system to address issues related to human rights violations, a draft interim report showed Monday.The new system, according to the draft, should clearly state it is intended to "secure" and "develop" human resources, unlike the existing program, which only mentions the latter despite it, in practice, often being used as a means to obtain workers in the face of the nation's graying population and severe labor shortages.As of the end of 2022, around 325,000 fore…READ FULL ARTICLE