Newly appointed Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa says she has no specific plan to increase Japan's intake of refugees despite the number of applicants hitting a record high last year. "Whether seekers are applicable for refugee (status) is judged based on the international treaty on refugees. ...
Claiming that its refugee system is being abused by foreign job seekers, the government considers arresting some asylum seekers once their visas expire.
The number of migrants applying for refugee status in Canada after crossing the border from the United States has been rising since the beginning of the year, officials said Thursday. "Canada has seen an increase in the number of asylum claims in January of this ...
Every yen counts. In 2015, The Japan Times Readers' Fund received ¥730,012, which was distributed among four charity groups. Donations offered by readers of The Japan Times last year have been used to help asylum seekers start a new life in Japan, to support Afghan female ...
Three years after leaving his home in Aleppo to seek safety from Syria's ongoing civil war, Ismael, an asylum seeker in Japan, feels life has not changed for the better. Being denied refugee status and unable to unite with his family, the 30-year-old, who withheld ...
Indonesian police have arrested an alleged people smuggler who has targeted Australia since 1999, Indonesian and Australian authorities said on Saturday. Abraham Louhenapessy, also known as Captain Bram, was arrested in Jakarta before dawn on Friday, Indonesia's national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said. "He allegedly ...
A record 3,120 people lodged protests last year against the government’s rejection of their applications for asylum, while only 27 applicants were approved.
The first thing that Leith Khdeir Abbas, a 27-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who arrived in Germany four months ago, plans to do after he makes the return journey on Wednesday is to kneel down and kiss the soil that he calls home. "I fled to ...
Asylum seekers could be deported if they're found to have participated in a string of New Year's sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany's justice minister said Thursday. Police say witnesses have described the perpetrators as being of "Arab or North African origin," but there's little solid ...
Austria has sent hundreds of migrants back to neighboring Slovenia in the past three days for lying about their nationality in an apparent attempt to improve their chances of being granted asylum, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. Since the summer, hundreds of thousands of ...
Faced with an unprecedented influx of refugees and growing anxiety among voters, German authorities have stepped up the deportation of failed asylum-seekers. New figures show that the number of deportations almost doubled this year from 2014. By the end of November, authorities had deported 18,363 ...
The number of people seeking asylum in Japan this year hit a full-year record by the end of October, government data shows, as looser visa rules and severe labor shortages attract more of those fleeing conflict and poverty. Japan runs the tightest refugee recognition system ...
