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Opposition parties seeking to halt a bill on revising Japan’s immigration law are pouncing on the disproportionate workload assigned to certain counselors who review rejected applications for refugee status.
New facts related to the bill to revise the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law, which is being considered by the Upper House, have cast serious doubt over the assumptions on which the proposal is based.