​What is a National Caravan?

　At the beginning of this year (2022), Minister of Justice Yoshihisa Furukawa announced the establishment of the "Minister of Justice Study Group on Specified Skills System / Technical Intern Training Program" as follows.

"... Regarding the ideal state of the specified skill system and the technical intern training system, the immigration law and the supplementary provisions of the technical intern training law require consideration, but it is just about to be examined. From various standpoints, these systems are approaching. ， I am aware that there are various opinions and suggestions, including pros and cons. I have heard a wide range of opinions and suggestions from various stakeholders regarding the ideal way of both systems, without being bound by prejudice. Therefore, we decided to set up a "Study Group for the Minister of Justice on the Specified Skilled System / Technical Intern Training Program". At the same time, we would like to collect and analyze information on the implementation status of both systems. We have instructed the Immigration Control and Refugee Agency and are planning to receive reports one by one. I'm thinking. "(From the Ministry of Justice website)

 

The "Minister of Justice Study Group" has been held four times at the moment, and it seems that the movement to revise the system, including the revision of the law, has begun.

Since the establishment of the foreign technical intern training system in 1993, since the system itself has been disguised, it has caused various human rights violations and labor standard destruction at "acceptance" sites in various places for nearly 30 years. Human rights violations and the destruction of labor standards are often reported as "incidents" and have created "victims" as well as "perpetrators." We continue to be criticized by the international community, including the United Nations human rights institutions, for the structural problems of "slave labor" and "trafficking." Although the system was revised in 2010 and the Technical Intern Training Law (Act on Proper Implementation of Technical Intern Training for Foreigners and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees) was enforced in 2017, it was touted as "adequate", but "slave labor structure". It is still a structural problem that should be said, and human rights violations and destruction of labor standards are still endless. Recently, the problems of "abortion coercion" and "isolated childbirth" have become apparent, and female technical intern trainees who are victims and should be rescued are being driven to "suspects" and "defendants."

In addition, the specified skill system, which started in 2019 with noise, has eventually become an "acceptance" structure premised on the foreign technical intern training system. It cannot be said that the universal rights of workers, international standards, and rights under domestic labor law are practically guaranteed even for non-designated workers.

 

   Now that the government has announced a "system review," we urge the abolition of the technical intern training programs, which has become a slave labor structure for the purpose of deception and disguise. And, instead of an excuse for the demands of the business community, a childish specific skill system, a proper "acceptance system" in which the rights and human rights of workers who face the urgent demands of the region and the field are guaranteed. I ask you to create.

We will work on a nationwide caravan with the abolition of the technical intern training programs and a proper "acceptance system" in cooperation with various people in each region.

  We invite you to join us.

Let's work hard together!

 

 

May 2022

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  <Abolition of technical intern training program! National Caravan Executive Committee ＞

Nationwide network in solidarity with NPO migrants (Migrant Ren)

 Technical intern trainee rights network

Technical intern trainee problem lawyer liaison meeting

National Occupational Safety and Health Center Liaison Conference

Small and medium-sized union policy network

Forum Peace / Human Rights / Environment (Peace Forum)

contact address

Technical intern trainee rights network

1-12-6 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 3F

Phone: 03-3836-9061

Fax: 03-3836-9877

Email: caravan2022@migrants.jp

 

 

  

 

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National caravan overview
 

5/20 (Friday) Press Conference 13:30 Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Press Club

5/22 (Sun) National Caravan Start Hokkaido / Sapporo Okinawa / Naha
Town meetings and standings from 5/22 (Sun) to 6/10
6/11 (Sat) Immigration Federation Symposium
6/12 (Sun) National caravan consolidation demonstration and rally
6/13 (Monday) Press conference after the request to the Technical Intern Training Organization and the government