Japan: Shady brokers cast shadow on accepting foreign workers

TOKYO --- In an effort to quell the involvement of malicious brokers when Japan begins accepting more foreign workers from next spring, the government plans to request that foreign nationals write down the involvement of intermediate agents and the amount of money paid to them on application documents submitted upon entry to Japan. The efficacy of this measure, however, is in question, because it depends on arrivals being up-front with this information. 'Despairing of the future' "I cannot repay my debt. All I can do is to shut myself behind closed doors with my head in my hands," a 28-year-old Vietnamese man said while placing his head on a desk at a private house in Koriyama, Fuk...

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