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He was one of 210,000 people who belong to Japan's foreign trainee programme.

Just as washoku won UNESCO designation in December, Mr Murata's restaurant, Kikunoi, was about to accept its first foreign trainee chef.

The foreign trainee system was established in the mid-1990s, in theory to transfer technical expertise to young foreigners who would then apply the knowledge at home.

Mr. Nakamura, the Liberal Democratic politician, said the foreign trainee system was "shameful," but added that if it were dismantled, businesses would not be able to find Japanese replacements.

Instead, the women say, they were subjected to 16-hour workdays assembling cellphones at below the minimum wage, with little training of any sort, all under the auspices of a government-approved "foreign trainee" program that critics call industrial Japan's dirty secret.

But the reality is that the foreign trainees — now numbering about 100,000 — have become a source of cheap labor.

Most foreign trainees in agriculture, like the Chinese here, end up leaving in less than a year because little work is available after the farming season.

Critics say foreign trainees have become an exploited source of cheap labor in a country with one of the world's most rapidly aging populations and lowest birthrates.

Closed to immigration, Japan has admitted foreign workers through various loopholes, including employing growing numbers of foreign students as part-timers and temporary workers, like the Chinese here, as so-called foreign trainees.

By all accounts, the Chinese workers here, who are technically considered foreign trainees and are not counted among Japan's foreign workers, are treated well compared with others in the same category.

Urged on by civic groups, President Kim Dae Jung's government is expected to draft a law shortly to end discrimination against foreign trainees and to extend their legal stay to five years.