Body found in suitcase a woman from China
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A BODY found inside a suitcase floating in a Tokyo canal last month has been identified as that of a Chinese woman missing for over two years, police said yesterday.
The body, in a camisole and short pants, was not badly decomposed when discovered on June 27, an indication that the woman had not been dead for long.
Police said they were unable to confirm her identity as 34-year-old Yang Mei until yesterday.
Yang came to Japan in September 2013 as a trainee, one of the tens of thousands of foreigners — mostly from China, Vietnam and Indonesia — who participate in the government’s Industrial Trainee and Technical Internship Program.
A police spokesman said Yang had been put on a missing persons list by police in Kyoto, western Japan.
“She was working at an auto-parts plant in Kyoto but disappeared from her dormitory after being seen in its cafeteria in March 2014,” the spokesman said.
He added that police matched the body’s fingerprints with those of Yang held at the immigration bureau.
TTIP is an internship program under which people from developing countries can learn skills at Japanese companies.
But it has been criticized by rights campaigners as a scheme to provide cheap labor for the textile, construction, farming, manufacturing and other industries.
The program has been plagued by participants running away and going missing in Japan when no longer able to stand working conditions that activists have described as “abusive” or simply to seek better wages.
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