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As many as 69 foreign technical trainees died from 2015 through 2017, including 12 who were killed in accidents during training and six who killed themselves, according to a Justice Ministry analysis of reports from businesses that hired those and other trainees. As many as 260,000 foreign technical trainees are said to be in Japan now, and more than 7,000 went missing from their employers in 2017 alone.
The revelation was made to the Mainichi Shimbun in a contribution by Akira Nagatsuma, policy affairs chief of the largest opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
Source: The Mainichi
