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IMMIGRATION

Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2026
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
The main question is how Japanese language ability will be assessed. Japan must avoid turning the Japanese Language Proficiency Test into a de facto national filter.
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
COMMUNITY / Issues
Aug 11, 2026
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The question can be a difficult one for many, particularly those with religious beliefs that might not conform with how death is traditionally handled in Japan.
The building housing the Immigration Services Agency in Tokyo
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2026
Japan shares data on foreign nationals facing deportation with local governments
Previously, such information was shared only when there was consent from affected individuals.
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
COMMUNITY
Aug 10, 2026
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The proposed requirements have left many angry, anxious and unable to plan for the future, with some reconsidering whether they can remain in the country at all.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks while U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listen during an event at the White House in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2026
Trump¡¯s new attack on birthright citizenship faces uphill legal battle
The Republican ?president has for years threatened to tighten birthright citizenship as part of his restrictive immigration agenda.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Thursday aimed at denying citizenship to certain people born in the U.S., his second attempt to curb birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court knocked down an earlier directive.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2026
Trump signs orders to limit U.S. birthright citizenship, despite Supreme Court ruling
Limiting birthright citizenship has been one of the top priorities in the Republican president¡¯s crackdown on immigration.
The results of a public opinion poll conducted in May suggests that a growing number of people are becoming cautious about accepting more foreign workers.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 5, 2026
Support for accepting more foreign workers in Japan drops below 60%
The public opinion poll also found that more than one-third of people oppose the idea of expanding the number of foreign workers.
A protester holds a placard reading "Abolish the police¡± during a demonstration following the death of Moroccan businessman Abderrahim Fakir in Bologna, Italy, on July 26.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2026
As Europe migration debate rages, Bologna businessman¡¯s death highlights human cost
After the Moroccan, who lived in Italy for 36 years, died after being stopped by police, few publicly asked who he really was and what might have caused his distress.
Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2026
Current permanent residency applications to be judged using new income criteria
The income requirement the government introduced may be applied to applications submitted as early as April of this year.
Rohingya refugees hold a rally inside a refugee camp in Cox¡¯s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 25 last year, marking the eighth anniversary of their forced exodus from Myanmar.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2026
The Rohingya drown while ASEAN debates oil
People do not board unseaworthy boats because they misjudge the tides. They board because remaining has become its own form of drowning.
Members of the Spanish Army's "Regulares" infantry forces watch a group of migrants near the border post of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2026
Spain defends Ceuta sovereignty after Moroccan migrant rush
Tens of thousands of migrants irregularly entered the north African territory from Morocco in an unprecedented and deadly surge.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Ceuta, Spain, amid mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into the Spanish territory on July 31
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2026
After weathering fires, Spain PM caught out by migrant crisis
Pedro Sanchez ¡ª a figurehead for some progressives internationally ¡ª will see his government put on the spot Tuesday by EU ministers.
Migrants who crossed into Ceuta are taken back to Morocco in an army vehicle, following deadly mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish territory, in Ceuta, Spain, on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 3, 2026
Death toll from migrant rush into Spanish enclave in North Africa rises to 72
More than 50,000 people crossed into ?Ceuta by ?land and sea, driven to migrate by economic hardship and encouraged by social media rumors.
Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks to members of the media during a visit to HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, in Dover, southern England, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2026
U.K.¡¯s Burnham pledges ¡®relentless¡¯ focus on illegal migration
Illegal migration has been a political flash point in the U.K. and has boosted support for the far-right Reform U.K. party.
Volunteer Vicky Parthasarathy (right) believes that people from various cultures can understand each other better through food.
COMMUNITY
Aug 2, 2026
This children¡¯s cafeteria in Shikoku serves up free meals and global perspectives
As immigration becomes an increasingly contentious issue in Japan, a children¡¯s cafeteria in Shikoku is bridging cultural gaps, one hot meal at a time.
Floating barriers on the maritime border between Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta and Morocco in the aftermath of the sudden influx of tens of thousands of migrants into Ceuta, as seen from the outskirts of the Moroccan town of Fnideq on Saturday
WORLD
Aug 2, 2026
Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after deadly migrant rush
Spanish authorities said about 50,000 people ?had crossed into Ceuta by land and sea from Thursday in an unprecedented surge at one of the EU¡¯s only land borders ?with Africa.
People gather at Bab Sebta, on the Morocco-Spain border near Spain's enclave of Ceuta and the Moroccan town of Fnideq, on Thursday.
WORLD
Jul 31, 2026
Migrants pour into Spain¡¯s Ceuta from Morocco, with military called in
State television TVE reported that 2,000 to 3,000 people had crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta?on Thursday as Spain deployed military units to reinforce police there.
Japan's new basic plan for immigration control and residency management calls for greater use of digital technology and data analysis in immigration screening.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2026
Japan unveils new immigration plan focused on tighter regulations
The government¡¯s latest plan comes as the number of foreign residents reaches record levels, while Japan faces a shrinking population and labor shortages.
Students in Tokyo participate in a Work In Japan job fair. The country needs to support both academic Japanese studies and children¡¯s family languages to promote educational success.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 31, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ overlooked language crisis
Conversational fluency is different from the language needed to follow classroom lessons, understand abstract concepts and produce sustained academic writing.
Aurora and her six-year-old daughter, who were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to a family detention center in Texas, during an interview in California on July 23
WORLD
Jul 29, 2026
Thousands of children and their sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from U.S. child migrant agency
Since January 2025, the Office of Refugee Resettlement has shared more than 460,000 ¡°leads¡± with ICE about unaccompanied children, their sponsors and additional household members.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

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