A 23-year-old Cambodian woman, promised a path to professional skills and a better future in Japan, instead says she found herself trapped in a nightmare.
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Employed under the country’s technical internship training programme, she alleges she was repeatedly raped by the manager of the strawberry farm where she worked, forced into an abortion, and threatened with deportation if she resisted.
On Monday, she filed a lawsuit in Tokyo demanding 80 million yen (US$521,700) in damages. Human rights activists say her case shines a harsh light on the systemic exploitation plaguing Japan’s foreign trainee programme.
