…�Japan granted refugee status to 46 asylum- seekers in 2005, a record high since 1983.

Although this pales in comparison with the approximately 70,000 admitted as refugees and granted asylum by the U.S. in 2005, [Jana] Mason [deputy director of government relations for International Rescue Committee, a major U.S. nongovernmental organization] called the number a considerable step forward for Japan, which had granted refugee status to only 49 people during the entire 1990s.

According to Mason, the appropriate number of refugees a country should admit must be based on its size and population as well as the number of applicants. But there is no magic number, and it is estimated there are 11 million refugees worldwide.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061028f2.html

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The labor ministry kicked off studies at an expert panel Wednesday to review a job training program for foreign workers criticized as exploiting them under poor working conditions. The ministry set up the panel, chaired by Gakushuin University professor Koichiro Imano, in the wake of nearly 2,000 foreign trainees fleeing from the program a year.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/387846

A black American man won a partial victory Wednesday in a discrimination suit against a shopkeeper who had barred his entry, when the Osaka High Court ruled that the defendant’s action was illegal, but not racially biased despite his stated bigotry, and awarded the plaintiff 350,000 yen.

In overturning the lower court ruling, the high court ordered optical shop owner Takashi Narita to pay 350,000 yen in compensation to Steve McGowan, 42. McGowan had sued for racial discrimination over an incident that occurred outside the shop in September 2004.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061019a4.html

The ratio of dispatched workers to regular corporate employees in Japan came to 12.4% last year, more than double the figure eight years ago, a government survey showed Monday. The data, compiled by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, indicated corporate Japan is increasingly incorporating temporary workers to cut personnel costs following 1999 deregulation in the labor dispatch service field.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/387554