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Seasoned lawyer Reiko Fuchigami achieved a legal milestone by becoming the first woman to be elected president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.
The Nagoya High Court last month ordered the Japanese government to grant refugee status to an ethnic Rohingya asylum seeker from Myanmar. The ruling is unprecedented as Japan’s refugee determination system puts more weight on asylum seekers’ individual circumstances than their status as a member of a particular group.