Reluctance to accept refugees draws fire
Since October last year, there have been at least 34 cases in which asylum seekers at immigration facilities purposefully injured themselves, with some even going so far as to attempt suicide, the Justice Ministry has admitted. The figure was revealed by a ministry official responding ...
Education for some refugees is ray of hope
The men in uniform white shirts and dark shorts sitting in the classroom looked too old to be junior high school students; some had gray hair, close-cropped. The students are attending Kiri Branch School of Asahi-machi Junior High School, the only junior high school in ...
Japan tries to reform refugee system
Japan has often been criticized for closing its doors to asylum seekers. Following the high-profile incident in May at the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, China, in which Japanese officials let Chinese police take a family of North Korean asylum seekers out of the ...
