Hilary J. Holbrow is assistant professor of Japanese politics and society at Indiana University Bloomington. Qiaoyan Li Rosenberg is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Japanese government's announcement last month that it would abolish the controversial program through which foreign migrants are brought into the country to work as "technical interns" appeared to suggest that Tokyo was finally acknowledging the need to accord greater rights to these laborers.
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