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Yusaku Yoshikawa is an aid consultant at JIN Corporation and is engaged in agricultural Official Development Assistance (ODA) Projects in Africa. He completed his Master in Development and Rural Innovation at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands.
With a shrinking working-age population, attracting foreign workers is an imperative for Japan, writes Yusaku Yoshikawa (JIN Corporation).
Recognising foreign workers as full and legitimate members of society will enable Japan to become an immigration nation, writes Yasuo Takao (Curtin University).
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...