As more people migrate worldwide, Japan will not be able to stop immigration, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, saying he was concerned with Japan's restrictive refugee acceptance program and treatment of asylum-seekers.
"One key aspect of the 21st century will be people moving, around the world. And I don't think any society will be able not to participate in this situation," Antonio Guterres told a news conference Monday.
Guterres, on a three-day visit that ended Wednesday, said the U.N. agency was troubled with all parts of the process to become a refugee in Japan.