Foreign Students End Up Being Slaves In Japan


Due to Japan's declining population, the government is accepting more workers from other countries than ever. Coming to Japan as a student and working at the same time would make a difficult situation for foreigners especially coming from lower-income places.

Although Japan's set a law that foreign workers aren't allowed to work over 28 hours each week, most likely they're forced to work overtime, and not getting paid for it. Those students' purpose to learn Japanese, and to study in Japan, however many of them end up working more than studying.

For the past three years, over 1,600 foreign students disappeared from Tokyo University of Social Welfare. They have debts to pay a lot of money to attend a language school and a university, and eventually they have to quit school to work more instead.

Japan's been planning to aim for 300,000 students by 2020 since 2008. Originally there were many Chinese and Korean elites studying in Japan; they had to go back to their countries as soon as the Great East Japan Earthquake happened in 2011. After that, Japanese language schools were in danger of losing income so they started to recruit people from South Eastern Asia. 

In addition, there're insane rules that limit freedom; you are not allowed to marry to anyone, even have a boyfriend/girlfriend while you're working for a company in Japan. Also some companies keep their passports so that they can't run away etc. According to Ministry of Justice, it is illegal fire people because of their marriage or  pregnancy, or to control their lifestyle.

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