Much needed help: Indonesian nurse Lestari Nur Hadiansyah talking to an elderly woman at a nursing home in Futtsu, eastern Tokyo. Torii (inset) has slammed the training programme which he claims is a “system of slave labour”. — AFP
TOKYO: The first word En learned when he started work on a construction site in Japan after moving from China was baka – “idiot”.
The 31-year-old farmer is one of 50,000 Chinese who signed up for a scheme run by the Japanese government that promises to allow foreigners to earn money while they train on the job.
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