Claiming that its refugee system is being abused by foreign job seekers, the government considers arresting some asylum seekers once their visas expire.
Immigration authorities ask the offices of five nations to promote voluntary repatriation of their overstaying nationals.
The government has repatriated 22 illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in the fourth round of its contentious mass deportation program using a state-chartered plane, the Justice Ministry announced Thursday. Subject to the repatriation, conducted Wednesday, were visa overstayers and other illegal immigrants who had long "stubbornly" ...
Eight children petition the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau for clemency to allow their families to stay in the country so they can continue their lives.
A wide-ranging review will cover everything from accepting more highly skilled non-Japanese workers and revising the foreign trainee program to cracking down harder on visa overstayers.
After successfully expelling visa overstayers over the past decade, Japan is now shifting its immigration control focus to a new target: people in the country on bogus visas. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has submitted a bill to revise the immigration control law that will ...
Visa overstayers facing deportation orders marched through Tokyo's Ginza district on Wednesday afternoon, pleading for permission to remain in a country that many have called home for decades. Organized by nonprofit organization Asian People's Friendship Society (APFS), the parade featured about 70 of visa overstayers ...
The number of people in Japan overstaying their visas climbs for the first time in more than two decades as visitors from Thailand and Vietnam spike.
Japan charters a plane to deport 70 Filipinos who were staying on expired visas to reduce the expense and trouble of sending them home individually.
