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Japan’s parliament on Friday approved a revision to an immigration and refugee law that will allow the forced repatriation of asylum seekers after they are denied refugee status twice, a change ...
In June 2024, Japan revised an immigration law allowing deportations of immigrants who applied for refugee status three or more times if they did not submit reasonable grounds for approval, and would be allowed to live outside detention facilities conditionally. [38]
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events.
Japan on Sunday said it would tighten immigration measures after former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled the country while on bail, its first official response to an astonishing escape that has ...
[10] [11] The Turkish government claims that there are no Kurdish refugees because Kurds 'have the right to vote and their human rights are guaranteed'. [12] [13] As of 2024, only one refugee claim has been granted by the Japanese government, a case won in court in 2022 against the rejection of a refugee claim. [14]
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese police on Tuesday filed a notice of investigation against the local office of food delivery service Uber Eats for suspected breach of immigration law. Tokyo Metropolitan ...
During Japan's economic development in the twentieth century, and especially during the 1950s and 1960s, migration was characterized by urbanization as people from rural areas in increasing numbers moved to the larger metropolitan areas in search of better jobs and education. Out-migration from rural prefectures continued in the late 1980s, but ...
Wishma was the 17th person to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007. [8] Her death prompted renewed criticism of Japan's strict immigration control, which accepted only 0.4% of asylum applications in 2019. [9] Prosecutors have dropped charges against immigration officials. A civil lawsuit against the Japanese government is ongoing. [10]