Japan's human rights issues fared better in 2016
Welcome back to JBC's annual countdown of the top issues as they affected Non-Japanese (NJ) residents of Japan. We had some brighter spots this year than in previous years, because Japan's government has been so embarrassed by hate speech toward Japan's minorities that they ...
No redress for deportation death of Ghanaian man at Narita airport: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for compensation from the family of a Ghanaian man who died after being restrained by immigration officials during deportation. In a decision dated Wednesday, the top court's Second Petty Bench upheld a lower court ruling that overturned an ...
In reversal, Tokyo High Court rules government not responsible for Ghanaian deportee's death
In a reversal, the Tokyo High Court determines that the government was not responsible for the 2010 death of a Ghanaian alledgedly subjected to excessive force by immigration authorities while being deported.
Officials faulted in death of Ghanaian
In a landmark verdict, the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ruled that immigration officials were responsible for the death of a Ghanaian man they were forcibly deporting in 2010. Finding that the officials "illegally" used excessive force to subdue Abubakar Awudu Suraj aboard a plane, ...
Immigration inmates live life of limbo, at officials' whim
Abubakar Awudu Suraj spent 20 months in an Immigration Bureau detention center before being manhandled onto a jetliner at Narita airport for deportation back to Ghana in March 2010. He died in handcuffs on the plane. Immigration authorities allegedly used "excessive force" to restrain him. Authorities ...
Justice stalled in brutal death of deportee
Abubakar Awudu Suraj had been in Japan for over two decades when immigration authorities detained him in May 2009. The Ghanaian was told in Yokohama of his deportation to Ghana at 9:15 a.m. on March 22 last year. Six hours later he was dead, ...
A 27-year-old Japanese bus driver was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison by a U.S. district court Friday following an accident that killed three Japanese tourists and injured 12 others in Utah last August. Yasushi Mikuni will be held for one year, and ...
Wife presses for details in death of deportee
The Japanese wife of a Ghanaian who died last month while he was being deported for overstaying his visa called Tuesday on police and the Immigration Bureau to disclose exactly how he died. "I want the government to unveil the truth as soon as possible ...
