Japanese authorities ban Imabari Shipbuilding from recruiting overseas trainees

Japanese authorities ban Imabari Shipbuilding from recruiting overseas trainees

Shipbuilder will be unable to hire foreign interns over the next five years

Imabari hit by overseas recruitment ban

At a time when it needs overseas help more than ever before, Japan’s largest shipbuilder has been hit with a five-year ban on accepting foreign trainees. Imabari Shipbuilding has lost its official certification for foreign technical intern programs through to the end of the decade for violating the industrial safety and health law, the Immigration Services Agency has said. Moreover, all trainees currently working at Imabari will be transferred t…