A group of Asians who have overstayed their visas visited the Tokyo Regional Immigration Office on Wednesday to ask the Justice Minister to give them special permission to live in Japan.
This is the first time that people who have overstayed and have no Japanese relatives have made an amnesty appeal as a group, according to the Asian People’s Friendship Society, a citizens’ group supporting their action.
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