U.S. says Japan still has work to do in combating human trafficking

Japan's failure to criminally investigate and prosecute more labor and child sex trafficking cases has led the United States to leave it at the second-highest tier of a four-level scale published by the State Department, its annual report said Monday.The 2024 report said the Japanese government "does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so," recognizing that the situation has modestly improved compared with a year earlier.The report took note of a bill aimed at reducing vulnerabilities to forced labor under Japan's s…READ FULL ARTICLE