Isn’t it strange how the country that is supposedly the next superpower still has many citizens willing to submit themselves to the worst conditions of human smuggling to go elsewhere?
When the meeting was over, one of our senior managers and his assistant got them a cab, rode to the train station and got them on the correct train for their next destination.
They never showed up. Their superiors contacted us and chewed us out for not accompanying them to their destination. We got the definite idea that these two guys got off somewhere along the line and disappeared into the illegal immigrant population working in Japan. IOW, a job as an illegal immigrant in a Chinese restaurant somewhere in Japan was preferable to a life as a government official in China.
We simply told them that Japan was a free country which didn't handle people in that manner and they were free to file a missing persons report with the police.