Update #2 (10/23) With New Comment From Nintendo:

"Nintendo was concerned to learn that underage individuals had been working at a Foxconn facility in China where components for some Nintendo products are produced. Nintendo investigated the incident and determined that this was a violation of the Nintendo Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Procurement Guidelines that all Nintendo production partners are required to follow, based on relevant laws, international standards and guidelines.

Foxconn has taken full responsibility for this incident and has moved quickly to ensure that all affected individuals no longer work at Foxconn. In fact, Foxconn’s own policies prohibit the employment of underage individuals and the company has pledged to Nintendo via direct communications to improve its process of enforcing this policy to avoid any similar issues in the future.As one of many companies that work with Foxconn to enhance CSR along the whole supply chain, we take this issue very seriously. As part of our ongoing procurement process, Nintendo staff will continue to carry out on-site inspections of our production partners in order to understand the actual on-site conditions and to promote socially responsible procurement.For more information about Nintendo’s Corporate Social Responsibility report, please visit https://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en/index.html.""Nintendo is in communication with Foxconn and is investigating the matter. We take our responsibilities as a global company very seriously and are committed to an ethical policy on sourcing, manufacture and labor. In order to ensure the continued fulfillment of our social responsibility throughout our supply chain, we established the Nintendo CSR Procurement Guidelines in July 2008. We require that all production partners, including Foxconn, comply with these Guidelines, which are based on relevant laws, international standards and guidelines. If we were to find that any of our production partners did not meet our guidelines, we would require them to modify their practices according to Nintendo’s policy. For more information about Nintendo’s Corporate Social Responsibility report, please visit https://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en/index.html ."Consumer electronics giant Foxconn has confessed to employing children under the age of 16 years old in one of its Chinese factories, according to reports from Reuters Allegations against Foxconn, the largest contract-based electronics manufacturer in the world, were first raised by labor rights advocates. After an internal investigation, the company announced it found violations in its Yantai plant, where 'interns' as young as 14 years old had been hired. Chinese law states no workers under the age of 16 may be hired. Xinhua, the official news agency of China, claims Foxconn resorted to these tactics to make up for a 19,000 employee shortage."We recognize that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company and we have apologized to each of the students for our role in this action... it is also a violation of Foxconn policy and immediate steps have been taken to return the interns in question to their educational institutions." Foxconn said in a statement. Xinhua, citing anonymous sources, stated that as many as 56 children have returned home from the 'internship program,' which makes up 2.7% of Foxconn's 1.2 million person workforce.Foxconn, perhaps best known for its fabrication of Apple hardware, has also been hired by Nintendo to manufacture Wii U. The firm has come under intense scrutiny in recent years following several employee suicides, and a employee riot that broke out last month. We have reached out to Apple and Nintendo for comment, and will update this story when and if we hear back from either company.

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