TOKYO -- Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will partner with the International Labor Organization to look into companies' foreign suppliers for human rights violations, Nikkei has learned.
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Japan to help companies check suppliers' human rights records
Tokyo asks ILO to look for labor issues in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Cambodia
A woman works at a garment factory in Vietnam. Half of all listed Japanese companies that responded to a survey have not been doing any human rights investigations. (Photo by Rie Ishii)
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