A government panel on Wednesday proposed replacing Japan's controversial trainee program for foreigners with a new system with more flexibility and oversight to prevent human rights infringements, according its draft report.The panel called for enabling trainees who attain a certain level of skills and Japanese language ability after working for a year at one place to transfer to another within the same business sector, which is not allowed in principle under the present system.Supervising organizations, which act as brokers and also supervise companies accepting foreign trainees, will be r…READ FULL ARTICLE
