A 15-year-old Kurdish boy faces a precarious future as lawmakers started full-scale discussions on speeding up deportations of foreign nationals illegally staying in Japan.
Desperate to secure labor for his small factory, Toshiaki Funakubo turned to Chinese "trainees," who came to Japan to acquire technical expertise and skills, for about two decades until around 2010, the time when China overtook Japan as the world s second-largest economy.
For more than four decades, the courts have often denied human rights for foreigners without status of residence based on a precedent set by the Supreme Court. But rights advocates hope that a recent landmark ruling is a signal that may be about to change.
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