Verité Premieres Documentary About Filipino Workers at Japan Symposium

Asia, Compensation and Hours, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Freedom of Movement, Migrant Workers, Southeast Asia

Iju-Sha is the term for Filipinos in Japan, most having come for work. Like the tens of millions of people around the world who migrate for a job, they arrive in pursuit of the promise of better wages, skills training and career opportunities. As Verité shows in our new documentary, Iju-Sha: Reportage on Migrant Workers in Japan, this may not be what they find.