On December 11th 2024, two Africans arrived at Narita Airport with the intention of applying for refugee status, but were refused landing...

On April 23, 2024, a cross-examination of the plaintiff (applicant for refugee status) in a Filipino refugee status lawsuit was held at...

I (Sasamoto) am in charge of this case. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) harassed and bullied a disabled SDF member, who had...

In December 2022, an El Salvadoran filed a lawsuit against the Immigration Bureau's denial of refugee status to the Tokyo District Court...

In December 2023, I was in Nha Trang, Vietnam, for a meeting with a group of Asian lawyers to discuss the 2024 Conference of COLAP in...

On August 25, 2023, a rally was held in the Diet Members' Building to demand residence status for underage foreigners without visas. On...

In April 2023, I visited the Northern Mariana countries (Saipan, Tinian, and Rota) to see how the discharge of contaminated water from...

The year 2022 was a year of war in Ukraine. Our hope is for an early end to the war. On November 25, 2022, the World Peace Council...

On September 15, 2022, the Constitutional Court of South Korea held a public hearing on the National Security Law, the notoriously...

On July 17, 2022, I gave a lecture titled "Perspectives on the Situation of the Ukraine Issue" at Chofu Constitution Plaza in Tokyo.　　The...

In the case of the death of a Sri Lankan woman at the Nagoya Immigration Bureau, in August 2021, the video was not disclosed and only a...

The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), of which I am a board member, and the Coalition of Lawyers for Asia and the...

Originally, to be recognized as a refugee under the Refugee Convention, it was sufficient to have a well-founded fear of political...

The Diet is about to start deliberating on the proposed amendment bill of the Immigration Control Act, but the amendment did not put any...

Two women filed a lawsuit against the former board member in the Tokyo District Court seeking compensation for damages.

I finally got my spousal visa. A Filipino woman who married a Japanese man could not get a spousal visa because her husband was on...

20 Turkish lawyers were put in jail convicted up to 18 years. A female lawyer went on a hunger strike to protest the unfair trial and died.

There are many rules and regulations in the world to ensure that people's interests are in harmony. There are laws that punish people who...

In April 2020, some foreigners detained at the Immigration Bureau due to the risk of corona infection will be released on parole...

To demand recognition as a child and child support to Japanese fathers who abandoned their children is a rights of childre.