Why Do Less Than 1% of Refugee Visa Applicants in Japan Get Recognized?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- So in the past, I have mentioned Japan's stand out poor showing and track record in terms of support for refugees. Basically, in spite of Japanese such as Sadako Ogata having been head of the UNHCR for 10 years, and the proud history cited even by PM Abe, who on his recent visit to the US went to a museum featuring the work of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara (the "Japanese Schindler") during WWII who rescued thousands of Jewish refugees, Japan retains an abysmal record on offering asylum to refugees.
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To give you an idea, in 2014, Japan received 5,000 refugee visa applications. Of those applications, only 11 were approved. Sugihara personally gave transit visas to 6,000 Jews in 1 year saving their lives at the time.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015...
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The visa process takes about 3 years, and has a less than 1% chance of success. Applicants usually have to wait for six months before they can get a temporary work visa to support themselves, and even then, finding work can be very difficult.
The Japan Association for Refugees and groups like it provide support for the visa applications of refugees, and basic life support. The group receives certain government subsidies for specific purposes, but relies upon private donations to provide the full range of services it does to help refugee applicants survive and support themselves as they go through this process, as well as find alternatives in the likely event they are not successful with their application.
www.refugee.or.jp/en/
www.refugee.or.jp/
Today, I went up to donate some large sized summer clothes I don't need, and got to talk to a member of the group about who these refugees applying in Japan are, why it is so tough, what support the group provides, and what kind of support the group itself needs. I did a slightly longer and more detailed interview in Japanese. I learned a lot and I hope you find the videos interesting.
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First of all, it is not our duty to accept refugees. The people who don't speak Japanese and don't understand the Japanese culture are not qualified unless those people have the extraordinary skill. As long as we accept the refugees, those people must live like the Japanese at least in their life quality. It is not about the love, it is about the reality of life. Look at European countries, which accepted many immigrants! The immigrants destroy the culture of those countries. Even the immigrants, who have the job do cause the troubles, what is going to happen if the many jobless refugees came in? The acceptance of refugees is as same as making a social problem, which would never be solved.
+伊藤博文 I think you are confusing refugees with normal immigrants.
+Hikosaemon
混同しているのは今のドイツではないでしょうか。
本当に困っている難民は近くの国の難民キャンプで携帯やお金を持たず暮らしている普通の人たちです。
ドイツに向かっているのは医者や先生のような学とお金があって移民ビジネスの人に100万円以上出せる人経済移民。
ドイツは昔のトルコ人のようにただ安価で高学歴の労働者が欲しいだけで、本当の助けにはなっていません。
+Hikosaemon Do you think to take care of the Syria refugees is the duty of all countries? Is it the problem which every country should be responsible for? This is not the matter of the humanity. It is the debt which several countries should owe. Without the cause, they didn't become the refugees. Britain did so many nasty diplomacy in the Middle East. Later on, France, US, Russia, and some neighboring countries got involved. It's silly to judge who is good and who is bad from the current situations. They are totally screwed up now. I don't think Japan should accept these refugees by any means. It should be solved by those countries. For the country, which has no relationship to this issue, these refugees are as same as the immigrants. They should not head to Japan.
+伊藤博文 Japan is obliged to meet its obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention which it voluntarily signed up to in 1981, where it agreed to be responsible for recognizing and accepting refugees under that convention.
If you think Japan should withdraw from the refugee convention, that is a fair opinion - and perhaps if enough Japanese agree, one day Japan will, and it will not have an obligation to give asylum to legitimate refugees.
However, until Japan withdraws from the convention, it is a domestic and international obligation of Japan to properly recognize and grant asylum to refugees seeking refuge in Japan - this is an obligation a lot of people don't think Japan is properly meeting.
+yello bird また「難民」と「移民」の違いがちゃんと区別できていない気がします。戦闘地など、亡命するために移動している人たちであれば、国際社会として基本的に受け入れるべきと思います。ただ、これはもちろん正しく審査して、移民の人を分けながら行うべく、その点はドイツがちょっと甘いと指摘したら当たるかなと思います。
Japanese Immigration Office understand that most of those Refugee Visa Applicants are economic immigrants, who are acturelly not life endangered back in their home country.
5 out of 11,000?
+Hikosaemon I guess they want the very strict evidence that the applicant person is in fact the refugee who may be in the circumstance of being exposed to the risk of life in their home country.
Of course it's a very bureaucratic attitude. But such an attitude is not only directed to foreigners, but also often directed against the Japanese.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time!
great interview!!! thanks so much
Great video and excellent information in the description. Well Done!
Awesome that you got to actually go out and speak with the organizations that are helping these refugee applicants to survive the process! It's nice to see some faces in this previously discussed topic. Great job raising awareness, Hiko!
Great video Hiko! Learned a lot.
Very nice work Hiko. Very nice indeed.
Amazing Video. Very good interview.
Wow! Awesome video! When does the full documentary come out? :)
This is a great interview, thanks- in the SSL series, I talked with Jane of Refugees International Japan about the situation and they don't actually help with refugees to Japan, but refugees everywhere - so this was interesting to hear about, thanks!
This was something different. Good video!
Good stuff hiko as usual
that is a very important issue to bring awareness to ...Great video Hiko
I had no idea the Japanese government had such strict laws on being a refugee in japan
Nice video. Very interesting topic.
Well Done Hiko! One question though: Why Do Less Than 1% of Refugee Visa Applicants in Japan Get Recognized? :-)
Baye McNeil Haha, I gotta change that title....
Very interesting video.
I have worked with refugees here in the U.S. Some things about it are like in Japan, and some are very different-- most of all, the extremely tiny rate of approval of refugee applications in Japan.
Very important facts.. 👍👍👍
Great video, Hiko. Her English is pretty good as well.
Can the refugee visa change the status like who came student leave the school to refugee applicant and now want to school again
Good video on a worrisome topic.
Helping these people is very admirable but taking refugees in doesn't help the situation, in fact it will only make things worse. The only solution is to invest in their country and build better infrastructure for example. Every year more poor people are born than we could ever take in. I know it sounds harsh but helping them were they live is the best option.
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the number of asylum seekers to japan was 5000 in 2015.
1.Nepal1293 2.Turkey845 3.Sri Lanka485 4.Myanmar434 5.Vietnam225 6.Pakistan212 7.Thailand136 8.Nigeria86
4134 of them were already staying legally in japan.
the reason of Non-certified is 41%=political crime to their own country. some of them were keeping to operate even in japan. 16%=dept problem in their own country.
japan dont want to destroy those countries. so why do we have to accept those crimes? are those countries at war? no way. you have to reserch before saying something.
Nice video!
Startling when comparing to the situation in EU. Only in Germany this year it's been more than 100.000 refugees. Not to mention Italy.
This is already causing some higher levels of resentment.
I'm a foreigner here and I also would prefer not to have some of the refugees here... even though it feels wrong to say that.
Hiko. Your man on the beat.
It's cool that you're drawing some more attention to this, btw you look a little nervous around that cute girl.
POO POO PEE PEE Ha! I kinda sprung the "be on my TH-cam" request on her so I was a bit self conscious, but... yeah... :)
Interesting topic, though as a Canadian, I find the low rate of accepted refugees quite alarming. "Well you can't speak Japanese, so sorry, you have to stay in your dangerous country," seems like a pretty poor excuse. Canada offers free or afforable English or French classes to refugees and immigrants as well as financial assistance that is double what is paid to born Canadian pensioners!
hikkipedia what is "dangerous" ? , why these ppl in those countries still make so many babies ? and don't tell me that they can't afford contraceptive methods coz i live in one (Algeria) and you can get the pill and condoms anywhere ;-)
hikkipedia It's funny because when I ask refugees in Europe what percentage of accepted refugees are actually refugees (read political vs economical), the number I most commonly hear is 1%. Also keep in mind it's not just the oppressed or persecuted ppl that are accepted in, but also the persecutors when the tide shifts. And yeah I know things usually aren't that black and white.
Ahmed Usul Your point of making babies doesn't really have anything to do with refugee status. People have kids, all over the world, irrelevant to their poverty status or access to contraception. People don't stop having sex, and don't use contraception whether they have it or not out of ignorance or unwillingness. You can point to any poor or wartorn country and see people still having kids and raising families there. Does that mean their living condition doesn't suck? No, of course not.
Ahmed Usul
that is a poor point you make.
do you maybe mean countries with high birth rate are poorer because of it or is the reason they become refugees? because becoming a refugee doesn't have to do with that it could just be political religious issue just like in Syria. befor the war there were practically no Syrian refugees what so ever and after the war millions .... is it because they have kids :/
aeusem88 For some reason, I can't find any info on how many people actually apply to be landed refugees in Canada, only the numbers that make it and they're comparable to the UK. I think splitting up who is a political vs economical refugee, or who is a persecuted refugee and who is not can get quite hairy. But either way, neither of those points where used in this video. She merely stated that the language barrier was the issue and didn't offer any action they're taking to counteract that.
Interesting video but as others said, sadly we still don't know the answer :\
The global community gives Australia so much grief as they feel they don't accept their fair share of refugees, which is they accept an astronomical level if compared with Japan, but Japan totally flies under the radar and is barely an issue or know about here.
Interesting.
Gimmeaflakeman You Where rigth, She´s hot.
Gimmeaflakeman i can see the apeal but ive got tastes. it was the topic that intrigued me overall
TheRandomHighFive That's what I hoped for. The topic.
lol dont really know how to respond to this comment its almost threatening yet friendly as well.
You should probably donate that shirt too...
NodnarbRS LOL!
Why? (?.?)/
English version Video Title 難民支援協会の紹介?
積極的平和主義? Most good policy.
Active Peacekeeping operations.
nitobe inazo (新渡戸稲造) Victoria Canada.
Racism Racism Racism.
CERCL
This is very interesting to watch, especially because the system is so different from other countries. Maybe it's just my American bias, but I would love to see this system grow so that refugees who end up coming to Japan can live safely.
Must be from Peru 5000 Applicants looool
When refugees are offered a country, safe from harm they owe that country a debt of gratitude' your religion is your own oersonal affair, do not pray in public parks, and break all the rules of uour host, if you do you are provoking civil unrset. I f you want sharia law go home
viktor she doesn't look beautiful to me o_o
The country need immigrants please they have to see refugees) refugee can work but they are settling on the streets