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Rethinking Japan's refugee and asylum policy


Rethinking Japan’s refugee and asylum policy
19 January 2021
Author: Hirotaka Fujibayashi, Graduate Institute, Geneva
In 2020, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, under the UN Commission on Human Rights, levelled criticism against Japan’s asylum system. The Working Group’s Opinion was primarily adopted to urge the Japanese government to review its inhuman treatment of long-term detainees, the vast majority of which are seeking asylum. The Opinion also touched on a more fundamental issue: Japan’s strict refugee screening system.
Throughout former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, immigration was an important political issue. Political debates on immigration a traditionally taboo topic in Japanese politics flourished. Abe’s aim of increasing ‘semi-skilled’ foreign workers, not ‘immigrants’, led to the 2018 reform of Japan’s national immigration law, the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (ICRRA). A se ....

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BIMCO COVID 19 Weekly Report: Countries Imposing Temporary Crew Change Restrictions Due To Covid-19 Mutation Virus


The Italian government and Coast Guard has forwarded two circulars through the IMO:
• IMO Circ. 4231/add. 13, which allows for an unlimited extension of the following COPs until disembarkation:
• Basic Training
• Fast Rescue Boat
• Advanced Firefighting
Japan
The Japanese Ministry of Justice has circulated measures to mitigate the impact of the B117 variant of COVID19 which emerged in UK in December. All entry by foreigners are prohibited – though GAC Hot Port News reports that seafarers are exempted from these restrictions.
Persons with travel history to UK and South Africa are explicitly prohibited from entry.
Philippines
• Extension of STCW certificates for onboard and ashore Filipino seafarers ....

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