Japan tells guest workers: don’t come back!
Japan is offering a what seems like a good deal to the many South American guest workers there left unemployed in the wake of the global economic crisis…The Japanese government will fly them home. But there’s a catch…the workers must promise to never come back. Reporter Akiko Fujita has the story.
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