The Worst Internship Ever: Japan’s Labor Pains
Japan is facing a serious labor shortage, a problem that can be traced back to an aging population and a prevailing fear that immigrants will dilute the country’s pure gene pool. In order to keep the world’s third-largest economy afloat, the Japanese government offers an internship program that attracts foreign workers from China, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The program, which allows workers to stay for three years, is advertised as providing laborers with transferrable new skills for when they return home. VICE News recently traveled to Japan to investigate the internship program. We found that many interns are underpaid, saddled with insurmountable debt, and forced into a form of indentured servitude. Many are illegally placed as oyster shuckers, construction workers, and other unskilled positions. And, despite international condemnation, Japan plans to use thousands of new foreign interns to build the infrastructure for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Watch "The High Cost of Cheap Clothes” - http://bit.ly/1FuOFOv Watch "Japan vs. the Islamic State” - http://bit.ly/1MrBYU3 Read "How the Sharing Economy Could Make the Labor Movement More Relevant” - http://bit.ly/1DxvPQB Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos
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Japan just needs to invite more white people.
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Anyway haters gonna say it's fake
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As Japanese, I was really disappointed that the internship program is far from meaningless, but rather harmful. When I worked at the second-car company, there were two Chinese and they washed the car every day and didn't get any skill even if the other Japanese worker learned the car care. I totally understood the actual situation of its program through this movie.
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i am japanese .this is true . this is one of the bigest problems.
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Poor Chinks, better off in Manchuria.
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is it in Japan where i read that people are ending up marrying their friends as they can't seem to find people to date or something?
if they keep this up the population will keep going down and down.. -
This dude just enjoys shitting on japan lmao
Let s be real this happens in like every country, america included it's just that for other countries there isn't a dumb reporter to point them out lol -
What a terrible environment. I hope those women won't stay there.
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These jobs will soon be replaced by robots
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Hey japan, enough with the masturbation competitions. procreate so that you'll have the manpower to do your work and not enslave other nationalities.
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Welcome to the capitalist world
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Vice with your gotcha journalism; what a joke. You go to an old guy's house with no hard evidence and accuse him of sexual harassment, and when he denies it you say "he's not answering our questions". LOL!~
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They day they stop paying me is the day I don't show up. Deuces!
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I'm surprised they haven't made robots to do the really low-skill menial jobs yet.
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America loves to be morality police when they themselves are morally bankrupt.
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While the conditions and most of those jobs are horrible. Construction is actually a good job to have. MikeRoweWorks. It also teaches many skills. China use more concrete in a year than anywhere else in the world. Hopefully when they return they can apply that trade and be treated as they should. Plus the skills can be utilized in other areas. That's not to say they should be treated that way to learn those skills. There's no excuse.
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All internships are pretty much just a pretense to exploit people.
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Reminds me of the film 'Biutiful'. Horrific reality for some people.
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In Japan they seemed to have missed the point on "your world is your oyster"
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