• Health Insurance Act amendment passes: dependent families limited to those resident in Japan;
• Guaranteeing a chance to work until age 70: amended law obligates companies to make efforts;
• Suicide due to long work hours and reprimands: Hiroshima 21-year-old gains compensation;
• Let go one day before becoming eligible for a permanent contract: part-time teacher at private school in Tokyo;
• Overtime hours report falsified? Charges filed against Hello Work director and others;
• Rapid increase in separations of families by Immigration Bureau: foreign parents detained, children sent to Child Consultation Center;
• Construction sites for the Tokyo Olympics are “in a dangerous condition”, according to international labor-union federation;
• Ten thousand children of foreign nationality “without support” to learn Japanese;
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)