Rejection rate 99%: Japan accepts 27 refugees in 2015, despite record applications

‘Japan has come under fire after it emerged Tokyo granted refugee status to just 27 people in 2015, despite the country experiencing a record number of applications. The government needs to do more to help refugees, activist groups say.

A record number of 7,586 people requested asylum in Japan last year – a 50 percent increase from 2014, according to preliminary figures released by the Justice Ministry, and cited by newspaper the Asahi Shimbun. It was the fifth year in a row that Tokyo had witnessed a growth in numbers of those seeking refugee status.

Although less than 1 percent of cases were approved, the 27 people given refugee status is more than double the number awarded in 2014, when just 11 were granted asylum.’

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