... The Immigration Control Act revised in July 2009 stipulates measures aiming only at problems that can be urgently responded to among other problems of the Technical Intern Training Programs.91 The revised Act temporarily responded to the international and domestic criticism toward the rampant human rights violations of programs such as the following: trainees and interns are in fact low-paid labourers, their passports and bank books are confiscated during the training period, and they are forced to have mandatory savings. As seen in the following 1) to 4), the situation has not improved at all since July 2010 when the Act came into force. The Technical Intern Training Programs should be abolished. ... (see text starting at page 63)