For foreign women who moved to Japan to work as technical intern trainees, taking maternity leave has rarely been a realistic option as pregnancy often means termination of an employment contract or even forced repatriation.Jiho Yoshimizu, the representative director of a friendship association that supports Vietnamese residents of Japan, recently published her first book titled "If You Get Pregnant, Sayonara," detailing the stark reality of "maternity harassment" in which technical interns are forced out of their jobs.Yoshimizu argues the priorities of companies that employ such individual…READ FULL ARTICLE
