Gov’t to forgo resubmitting immigration bill

Japan Today | Sep 7, 2022 at 11:00 PM
  • The ministry and the agency ran into difficulties following an initial review regarding the prevention of deaths in detention and the country’s acceptance of Ukrainian evacuees fleeing the Russian invasion.
  • Wishma arrived in Japan in 2017 as a student, but was taken into custody at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau in August 2020 for overstaying her visa after an earlier asylum application had been rejected.
  • Other changes to the law proposed by the government had included measures for a complementary protection system.