Little Victories

Japan Skirts Immigration Debate by Offering ‘Internships’ to Foreigners

Wall Street Journal - TOKYO—As its labor force shrinks, Japan is looking abroad to fill jobs like health-care aide, convenience-store manager and construction worker.

But rather than increase immigration, the government is turning back to an “internship” program that the U.S. and others have criticized as fraught with human-rights abuses.