we put these allegations to barneys new york and to comme de garcon.ng conditions, health and safety, for all of the factories that they work with and that this one was hired by a subcontractor without their knowledge or consent. they said their subcontractor is taking due action and have assured us this will never happen again. barneys new york said it didn't order anything directly from this company and that it's in the process of investigating. there are 6,000 companies employing technical interns in japan. in a 2017 report, the japanese government found that 70% of them had broken labour regulations on illegal and unpaid overtime. so why did a government scheme become so mired in abuse? for centuries, japan closed itself off from the outside, becoming one of the most homogenous societies in the world. now it's facing a demographic time bomb. it desperately needs workers, and the internship scheme became a way for companies to hire cheap labour from abroad. but many interns don't speak japanese and few are properly informed of their rights, leaving