This time, it passed. In 2021, the reform of the right of asylum in Japan had been, extremely rarely, postponed by the majority, despite the emotion aroused by the death in custody of Wishma, an asylum seeker, for lack of medical care.
On Friday, despite a host of new revelations, each more damning than the last, on the procedure for granting asylum, the same law was adopted by the Diet, further weakening the already extremely precarious situation of rejected applicants and throwing a harsh light on the status of foreigners in Japan.
No time limit
Since Japan ratified the Geneva Convention in 1981, the country has granted asylum to only 1117 applicants, in addition to 5049 humanitarian protection titles. For comparison, the France granted 555,665 similar titles in the same period. The archipelago compensates for its closure with generous subsidies for refugees abroad. A national schizophrenia long embodied by the legendary diplomat Sadako Ogata...
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