Forced Labor by Americans in Japanese Prison for Private Companies Is Under Investigation

A meeting of the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights, and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on June 10, 1994, discussed allegations that foreign prisoners held in Japanese prisons were forced to work for private Japanese firms. Important issues of public international law are imbedded in this case–international criminal law, international trade, international labor law, and international human rights law...[more]...