69 foreign technical interns die in Japan between 2015 and 2017

A total of 69 foreigners, mainly in their 20s, working as part of Japan's technical intern program died between 2015 and 2017, according to a Justice Ministry tally made available by a main opposition lawmaker on Thursday.While the ministry has not confirmed the contents, the document states the deaths were due to traffic accidents, illness, suicide or other reasons, but it does not describe the circumstances of all of the cases.The document was disclosed by Yoshifu Arita of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan during a parliamentary committee session ahead of the likely passage of …READ FULL ARTICLE