In a recent investor Q&A, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa responded to a report accusing the company, along with competitors Microsoft and Sony, for using forced slave labor to produce its products.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute published an investigative report in March 2020 calling out a number of companies--among them: Amazon, Apple, Dell, Gap, Google, HP, Microsoft, Nintendo, Oculus, Sony, and others--for "potentially directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019." In total, over 80 companies have been accused.
The report states that 80,000 Uyghurs ("and other ethnic minority citizens") have been moved from the Xinjiang region to various factories across China. In these factories, people are monitored under "military-style management," where Uyghur citizens are subjected to forced "patriotic education" and mandatory Mandarin classes. Furthermore, Uyghurs can't practice their religion and live in "carefully guarded dormitories" with little freedom.
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