4 firms made foreign trainees join Fukushima radiation cleanup

Foreign trainees hired by four construction companies in Japan were made to participate in radioactive decontamination work in nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture, a government survey showed Friday.The Justice Ministry, which conducted a survey of 182 construction firms through the end of June, said in an interim report on the government's Technical Intern Training Program that the four companies were based in the prefectures of Iwate, Fukushima and Chiba.Japan introduced the program in 1993 with the aim of transferring skill to developing countries. But the scheme, aimed at agricultu…READ FULL ARTICLE