Bhutanese exchange students are being extorted by overseas employment agencies and threatened into silence, according to representatives who spoke to the press Monday on behalf of the Parent¡¯s Committee of the Learn and Earn Program.
The exchange program gives students from Bhutan the opportunity to go to school and find a job in Japan.
More than 700 Bhutanese students have come to Japan thanks to the program, which was introduced by Bhutan¡¯s Ministry of Labor and Human Resources. However, the alleged suicide in December 2018 of a student in the program ¡ª a 24-year-old Bhutanese man named Sonam Tobgay ¡ª exposed its many problems.
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