October 22, 2025 - That post that also included U.S. ... legal residents and citizens alike. Neither the prime minister nor her Cabinet has made statements pointing to a plan to deport foreigners en masse....

October 28, 2025 - The issue of so-called “ghost ... Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female leader, ordered an uncompromising nationwide operation to remove all undocumented residents....

November 5, 2025 - Officer-escorted deportations doubled year-on-year in the first three months of Japan’s Zero Illegal Foreign Residents Plan, the Immigration Services Agency said.

However, this system of examining ... political and economic situations of Indochina in recent years. Since then, procedures are taken to forcefully deport boat people from Indochina as illegal aliens, just like other foreigners who are in Japan illegally....

they have never been deported or received a departure order; and · they have proved the certainty of their prompt departure from Japan.[20] Such foreigners must depart from Japan within fifteen days.[21] ... An illegal immigrant may be able to stay in Japan legally only if he or she obtains ...

November 7, 2025 - False. The new government in Japan has not made mass deportations its first policy nor is it creating a separate ministry for this purpose, according to a spokesperson for Japan’s embassy in Britain.

The rises from 1997 onward can be attributed in part to the improvement of management on the part of Japanese language schools. The number of registered foreigners with "Pre-college Student" status of residence kept declining until 1997. This can be attributed to the deportation of illegal residents who, as was described above, were working illegally under the disguise of student and who were included in the number of registered foreigners.

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The alien must have sufficient assets or skills to make an independent living. ... 3 The term "revocation" is used here instead of "rescission" stipulated in the dictionary compiled by · Cabinet Secretariat. This is to clarify the point that the effect of rescission shall not be traced back (the ... Act No. 125 of 1952 . ... A person who has entered Japan in violation of the provisions of Article 3.

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April 8, 2026 - Japan’s tougher deportation drive is deepening fear among asylum seekers and long-term foreign residents, rights groups say, warning that the government’s push to remove more undocumented migrants is clashing with its duty to protect refugees.

It is anticipated that they will definitely leave Japan promptly. They do not fall under any other grounds for deportation except for illegal overstay in Japan.

October 24, 2025 - False claims that Japan's new prime minister has created a ministry for "mass deportations" have been widely spread online, as immigration misinformation swirls after a "Japanese first" party did well in elections earlier this year.

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March 7, 2023 - The agency expects evacuees from Ukraine, who are not considered refugees under the 1951 Refugee Convention, to be subject to the new system. The previous revision bill was submitted to the ordinary Diet session in 2021. It included restrictions on the number of applications for refugee status, drawing criticism from both at home and abroad. Critics said the proposed changes did not meet international human rights standards. The rate of Japan’s refugee status recognition is 1 percent, abysmally low compared with the percentages of Western countries.

Deportation is an administrative measure defined under Japan's Immigration Control Act (the "Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act") that forcibly removes foreign nationals residing in Japan from the country.

Although its foreign-born population is very small compared to that of other immigration destination countries, Japan has struggled to overcome widespread public anxieties about foreigners and develop ways to meet migrant labour needs. One strategy has been to reduce non-nationals in irregular ...

March 30, 2026 - Permits enabling legal employment ... 2018. Workplace inspections and illegal immigration deportation enforcement activities were subsequently stepped up aimed at curbing alleged abuse of the refugee application system....