A government panel on Friday proposed scrapping Japan's controversial 30-year-old trainee program for foreigners and creating a new system to address alleged unpaid wages and other human rights violations, its interim report showed.The panel called for the new system to clearly state that it is intended to "secure" human resources, unlike the existing program, which says its purpose is to transfer knowledge and skills to developing countries.Critics say that in practice, the current program has been a cover for companies to import cheap labor as the working-age population in Japan shrinks.T…READ FULL ARTICLE
