Establishment of ESD Just Ends Up the Substitute of Abolished TITP?
Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) is a type of residence status for foreign workers and designed to bring workers into the industrial fields lacking working force, such as agriculture, fishing industry, constructing, food manufacturing, etc.
Deriving from the original system “Foreign Training Program” in 1990’s, the current system’s role is defined as “transferring Japanese Technology to developing countries” despite its contribution by fulfilling the working force in Japan
With numerous criticism to TITP, Employment for Skill Development has been newly established by reviewing the TITP. The purpose is set out for development of human resources with skills at the level of Special Skilled Worker(SSW) through employment for three years in the ESD industrial fields.
Under TITP, manifold cases reporting the violation and intrusion of human rights of Technical Intern Trainees, such as bullying in working sites, sexual harassment, violence, forcing to work in the not-designated field, Unpayment of wages.
The background of the review of the TITP and the establishment of ESD reside in the government’s intension to deter these criticism against TITP, but the fundamental nature of the system is not changed: Exploiting cheap working force.
