Lawyer criticizes foreign workers' bad conditions

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki (R) explains the poor working conditions foreign trainees are forced to endure, including low wages, in this file photo taken in June 2009. Workers chiefly from Asian countries are subjected to conditions of forced labor, sometimes through the government's industrial training and technical internship program.

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