In 2020, Japan granted refugee status to only 47 out of nearly 4,000 applicants.
amid the military government’s violent reprisals against protesters.
And before the Olympics began, Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko went missing from his training camp in Osaka Prefecture. He reportedly left a note saying he had gone in search of work. He was found five days later and returned to Uganda, where he was detained by police to faceJapan’s government has shown conflicting signs on its refugee policy going forward.
who have applied for refugee status and been rejected three times. The revision was halted following an outcry in the media.with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees , which has long pushed Japan to help more asylum seekers, to improve its refugee system. The aim is a system that is “more fair, transparent and efficient,” says Yuki Moriya, an associate communications officer at UNHCR in Japan.
Observers aren’t holding their breath. “The UNHCR standards are merely the adoption of internationally accepted norms,” says Shogo Watanabe, a Tokyo lawyer who works on human rights issues. “Japan’s inability to do this simple thing [until now] is an indication that it’s unwilling to accept them.”“I feel so relieved to leave Japan,” she says from her hotel in Vancouver, where she was completing quarantine.
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