The article refers to these people as "trainee lawyers" because under the Japanese system those who pass the bar exam must first work as interns for a year before being fully admitted to the bar.
As Japan only recently instituted a graduate law school system, these jobless new lawyers are also among the first new lawyers to enter the profession burdened with law school debt.
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