Japanese Prison Labor Practices
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Excerpt from Japanese Prison Labor Practices: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights and Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, June 10, 1994 The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Gary L. Ackerman (chairman of the subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific) presiding. Mr. Ackerman. Good Morning. The subcommittees will come to order. The Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights meet today in open session to discuss a very serious matter. Let me say for the record there is no one in this Congress who places greater value on U.S.-Japanese relations. Indeed, the U.S.-Japan bilateral relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships anywhere in the world. It is for this reason that I was so terribly disheartened a week or so ago when Mr. Christopher Lavinger, who had been my constituent, came to my New York office and detailed his history of being forced, along with approximately 35,000 other prisoners, to produce commercial goods while incarcerated in Japanese prisons. These prisoners are forced to work for as little as 3 cents per hour, slave wages, 8¿ hours per day, 5¿ days per week producing commercial goods bearing the names of such prestigious, internationally recognized Japanese companies and Japanese subsidiaries of international companies such as Burberry´s, Sega, Mizuno, as well as, Mitsukoshi and Daimaru, two of Japan´s largest department stores. In a letter to Ambassador Takakazuk Kuriyama, I have demanded to know how widespread this practice is, how much has been for export, which companies have been participating in this, and the full and complete details of this program. When I spoke with the Ambassador yesterday, he informed me that he believes this practice is not against international or domestic Japanese law. He also informed me that these products are, indeed, exported in some cases out of Japan, but that the companies are told not to ship them to the United States because of our prohibition concerning prison labor. There is evidently from what we can gather at this point no enforcement mechanism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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