Vietnamese trainee in Japan sent back after asking for paid leave english.kyodonews.net

A Vietnamese man working in Japan under a foreign trainee program was forced to return home after asking to take time off to get married, according to the man and his support group.

The 27-year-old man, who declined to be named, had been working at a seafood processing firm in Yokohama a little less than a year when staff from the Boso Promotion Cooperative came to his apartment on Feb. 6 and began packing up his belongings.