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Foreign communities in Japan, and their local supporters, are calling for lawmakers to scrap proposed changes to the country s immigration law. The revisions, which critics describe as inhumane, involve the forcible deportation of asylum-seekers who fail to prove a case to stay as refugees.
Public demonstrations started outside the Diet as lawmakers began debating the revisions on April 16. Protesters are staging daily sit-ins outside the House of Representatives. The Solidarity Network for Migrants Japan presented the government with a petition containing 106,792 signatures demanding the draft be scrapped.
The Ministry of Justice is presented with a petition on April 22. Signatories want the proposed changes to Japan s Immigration Law to be scrapped.
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