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REFUGEES

Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2015
Canary camp refugees rat on trafficking ring boss, smuggling boat skipper in their midst
Spanish police have arrested the suspected organizer of a ring smuggling migrants from Western Sahara to the Canary Islands and the captain of a trafficking boat from among a group of migrants recently arrived in the islands.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2015
Escaping the refugee crisis
The best way to help refugees would be for affluent countries to provide much more support for the poorer countries that are sheltering the vast majority of them.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2015
Ministry proposes overhaul of immigration, asylum policies
The nation will try to lure additional highly skilled foreign professionals and exchange students as part of a drive to stimulate the stagnant economy, according to the latest draft of an immigration policy review compiled by the Justice Ministry.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 3, 2015
Refugee scene of horror: 12 Syrians drown, including toddler found on Turkey resort beach
An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey's prime tourist resorts swept across social media on Wednesday after at least 12 presumed Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 2, 2015
Australia's secretive refugee camps hampered by ethical investors
Investors in the company that runs Australia's secretive refugee camps are starting to flex their muscles in a way that may achieve what refugee advocates and politicians have failed to for years — greater transparency and oversight.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015
Refugee crisis is suddenly Merkel's biggest challenge
In the past two weeks, Germany has been shaken by a perfect storm of headlines that have elevated the refugee issue to the very top of the public and political agenda.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 1, 2015
EU asylum rules strained as refugee throngs ride the rails to Vienna, points west
Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 31, 2015
Refugee death truck packed five per square meter
The 71 people found dead in an abandoned refrigeration truck in Austria had been crammed in, five to a square meter (10 sq ft), police said on Sunday, as initial forensic tests indicated they had suffocated.
WORLD
Aug 29, 2015
Web campaign raises $67,800 for Syria refugee family in a day
An online fundraiser has raised more than $67,800 for a refugee from Syria and his daughter after a campaigner based in Norway shared moving pictures on social media of the man selling pens in the streets of Beirut.
WORLD / Society
Aug 17, 2015
Refugees overwhelm Swiss 'front desk' border town, many crammed into train bathrooms
A border police officer gesticulates at a map of Switzerland as two migrants with backpacks are informed they've crossed into the Alpine nation from Italy, and that they have no right to be there without documents. It's an ordinary morning at the Chiasso train station.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 20, 2015
First asylum-seekers' boat in two years seen off Australia's west coast
A small vessel believed to be carrying asylum seekers was seen off Australia's remote west coast Monday, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) reported, the first sighting of a boat carrying would-be refugees close to shore in two years.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 11, 2015
The effort to educate Syria's refugee children
Lebanon is doing all it can to educate the children of refugees from Syria's civil war, but it could use some help.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2015
Mediterranean boat people are refugees, not migrants
People fleeing to Europe to escape violence in the Africa and the Middle East should be viewed as refugees, not migrants.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2015
Is Arab carnage just a taste of what's to come?
Although the Middle East and North Africa is home to just 5 percent of the world's population, it has produced more than one-third of its refugees.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2015
The unstoppable human tide
Europe and the rest of the world needs to step up to the plate and deal with the humanitarian crisis over the tide of migrants sweeping across the Mediterranean.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2015
U.S. rights report slams Japan on child abuse, prison conditions, asylum system
The U.S. State Department's annual human rights report highlights serious problems in the way Japan deals with refugees and notes that domestic abuse and sexual harassment remain rife.
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2015
Europe's refugee problem an echo of the 1930s
Anti-migrant sentiment rising across Europe is a distressing echo of the attitude toward Jewish refugees in the 1930s.
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2015
Rohingya refugees deserve better
More must be done to solve the Rohingya refugee crisis, which has drawn a woefully meager response from the governments of Southeast Asia.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 22, 2015
'Boat people' likely posing as Rohingya for aid, says Myanmar general
Myanmar's military commander has said some "boat people" landing in Malaysia and Indonesia this month are likely pretending to be Rohingya Muslims to receive U.N. aid and that many had fled neighboring Bangladesh, state media reported on Friday.
Shinjiro Koizumi takes farm ministry reins after predecessor's rice gaffe
Agriculture minister Taku Eto (left), who resigned on Wednesday, and former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi
Nissan’s troubles might go all the way back to Ghosn 
A lot at a Nissan plant in Mexico. The company may have overextended itself during the Ghosn era.
Japan confirms hard-line position ahead of possible tariff talks in Washington
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that when Japan states it wants the tariffs reviewed, it means Tokyo wants them removed.
Tokyo to cover cost of base service fees for water utilities through summer
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is looking to make the cost of base service fees in water utility bills free during the summer, hoping the financial support will allow residents to turn on their air conditioners and protect themselves against heatstroke.
Onosato’s march to yokozuna could usher in golden age for sumo
Onosato (left) battles Gonoyama on Day 6 of the Summer Basho. With Onosato on the cusp of promotion to yokozuna, there could soon be two titans at the top of the sport fighting for titles.
A window into the mind of Esperantist and political activist Teru Hasegawa
Teru Hasegawa, Esperanto name Verda Majo, wrote leftist political essays during WWII.
Nissan’s troubles might go all the way back to Ghosn 
A lot at a Nissan plant in Mexico. The company may have overextended itself during the Ghosn era.
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.
Japan confirms hard-line position ahead of possible tariff talks in Washington
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that when Japan states it wants the tariffs reviewed, it means Tokyo wants them removed.

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