With the closure Monday of the "dispatch workers' New Year village, "former" residents" and their supporters rally in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki to urge companies to stop letting go of nonregular workers. (YASUHIRO SUGIMOTO/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)
JETRO website used by overseas criminal group to lure Japanese to South Africa for kidnapping
A criminal enterprise based in Africa posted bogus business information on a Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) website to lure a Japanese businessman to South Africa last August to kidnap him.(January 6) [more]
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