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Osaka Prefecture leads the nation in working to help students of foreign descent retain their bicultural identity by offering classes in a language their parents speak.
In what it said was a “one-time” move, the government granted special residency to scores of foreign families with children who were born, raised and educated in Japan but had faced eventual deportation.
Despite stringent protests from opposition lawmakers, an Upper House committee passed a controversial bill aimed at speeding the deportation of foreign nationals illegally staying in Japan, paving the way for its enactment as early as June 9.
With the ordinary Diet session ending in two weeks, lawmakers are engaged in heated debates over a bill to revise the immigration law that could mean more deportations.
OSAKA--A doctor at an immigration detention facility here has been suspended over allegations she was under the influence of alcohol while treating detainees in January.