Immigration & Coexistence
Friction and cooperation between local communities and growing immigrant populations across Japan.
- 26-10-05 Foreign Crime Suspects in South Korea Up 6% in Three Years, Murder Cases Up 10.9%, Two Years After Police Downsized Its Foreign Affairs Bureau (韓国日報)
- 26-10-01 EU Interior Ministers Discuss Major Expansion of Frontex as Activists Sue Over Alleged Surveillance Sharing With Libyan Coast Guard (AP通信(ワシントン・ポスト経由))
- 26-10-01 UK Police Run Joint Crackdown on Organised Immigration Crime on M6 Motorway; 66 Vehicles Stopped and 18 Arrested (Express & Star)
- 26-09-30 ICE Detains 104 in Southwestern Kansas; Prosecutor Cites "Specific Criminal Aliens" as City Council Members Move to Ban Cooperation Agreements (Kansas Public Radio / Kansas News Service)
- 26-09-24 ICE Sweep in Southeastern Massachusetts Detains More Than 30 in Days; Governor and Mayor Call It Overreach (The New Bedford Light / WBUR)
- 26-09-22 Six Arrested in 17-Country Probe Into Migrant Smuggling to UK via Schengen Airports; Over 1,000 Forged Documents Sold (ユーロポール / InfoMigrants)
- 26-09-18 Experts Urge Japan to Counter 'Anti-Foreigner Disaster Rumors,' Propose Revising Hate Speech Law (毎日新聞(Infoseekニュース配信))
- 26-09-17 Nine Teen and 20s Men Arrested for Extorting Foreign Workers in South Korea's Gyeongsangnam Province (Seoul Economic Daily(韓国))
- 26-09-08 110 Fugitive Criminals Hiding in South Korea, 36% Chinese Nationals; Man Wanted for 1997 Tianjin Robbery-Murder Deported (ヘラルド経済(韓国))
- 26-09-07 162 Certified as "Foreign Resident Support Coordinators" Across 38 Prefectures; Immigration Agency Weighs National Qualification (Jiji Press)
- 26-09-02 One Month Into Ceuta Migrant Crisis, Protests Erupt Across Spain — 50,000 in Madrid Alone (Al Jazeera)
- 26-08-21 94.8% of Foreign Residents Want to Interact With Japanese Neighbors, but 72.4% of Japanese Fear Rising Crime, Gunma Survey Finds (Yomiuri Shimbun Online (via Yahoo! News))
- 26-08-20 Switzerland: 80.5% of North African Asylum Seekers Face Criminal Prosecution, Over Six Times the Average for Other Nationalities, Internal SEM Data Shows (Blick/Tages-Anzeiger)
- 26-08-19 UK Illegal Working Enforcement Hits Record High: 4,756 Arrests in First Half of 2026, Up 20% Year-on-Year, Home Office Says (英内務省(Home Office)公式発表)
- 26-08-18 After Nepali Student Dies in Accident Unable to Read "Stop" Sign, Osaka Police Add English to Stop Signs Near School (読売新聞オンライン(Infoseekニュース配信))
- 26-08-12 US Charges 11 Chinese Nationals Over Sham-Marriage Scheme Involving More Than 1,000 Green Card Marriages, Called Among Largest in US History (米司法省(DOJ)公式発表)
- 26-08-04 Spanish Government to Spend 30.5 Million Euros (Approx. 5.6 Billion Yen) on Protecting Unaccompanied Minor Migrants in Ceuta, Covering About 900-1,000 People (Infobae (Spain))
- 26-08-04 University of Tokyo Disciplines Professor in His 60s Over Code on Graduate Admissions Site That Impeded Access From China (Mainichi Shimbun (via Yahoo! News))
- 26-07-31 Estimated 60,000 Illegal Migrants From Morocco Surge Into Spain's Ceuta; Thousands Avoid Deportation, Raising Overseas Cost Debate (Jiji Press (summarized from multiple-language reports including local coverage))
- 26-07-29 Japanese Population Falls While Foreign Residents Rise, but Only 92 Municipalities Saw Overall Population Growth, Government Data Shows (東洋経済オンライン(Yahoo!ニュース配信、総務省統計に基づく))
- 26-07-26 Over 33,000 Sign Petition Opposing Fujisawa Mosque Construction as City Assembly Rejects All Related Petitions (Minkabu Magazine)
- 26-06-27 67 Nepali Nationals Died in Japan Over 10 Months, 25 by Suicide; Most Were Students and Part-Time Workers (japanSamachar (Nepali-language media, reporting based on Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Nepalese Embassy in Tokyo, and the Kathmandu Post))
- 26-06-01 Unauthorized 'Illegal Mosque' in Kawagoe, Saitama; City Demands Removal (NEWS Post Seven (Weekly Post))
- 26-05-01 Kurdish Residents in Kawaguchi Hold 'Night Patrols' in Bid for Coexistence: 'We Consider This Town Our Home,' Amid Criticism (Tokyo Shimbun Digital)
- 26-04-29 US Cronkite News Reports on Organized Hate Facing Kurdish Communities in Kawaguchi and Warabi (Cronkite News (Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism))
- 26-04-12 Opponents and Supporters of Fujisawa Mosque Construction Plan Clash Near Station (Diamond Online)
- 26-03-30 Tsukuba City Says It Will Not Offer Halal School Lunches, Citing Policy of Equal Meals for All Students Regardless of Religion (City of Tsukuba (official website))
- 26-03-01 Second- and Third-Generation Kurdish Youths Accused of Disruptive Behavior in Kawaguchi Neighborhood, Residents Uneasy (Seiji Portal)
- 26-01-28 Kurdish Coexistence Becomes Key Issue in Kawaguchi Mayoral Election (Tokyo Shimbun Digital)
- 26-01-23 Nepali Workers Repeatedly Defrauded by Unscrupulous Brokers Over Individual Work Permits to Japan; Embassy and Labor Ministry Issue Warning (Online Khabar (Nepal))
- 26-01-18 Fujisawa Masjid Launches Official Website, Signals Focus on 'Dialogue' with Residents (Kanagawa Shimbun (Kanaloco))
- 26-01-08 Kawaguchi Kurdish "Inspection Obstruction" Case: Saitama Prosecutors Decline to Indict Anyone; Saitama Assembly Members Appeal to Prosecution Review Panel (Tokyo Shimbun Digital)
- 26-01-08 Mosque Construction Plan Emerges in Itoshima, Fukuoka, Amid Complaints of Insufficient Advance Notice to Residents (Data Max)
- 25-08-01 Turkish Media Reports on Domestic Reaction to Japan's Kurdish Asylum Issue (Turkiye Today (Turkey))
- 25-07-31 Indonesian Workers in Japan Face Growing Stigma After Viral Incidents; Indonesian Embassy Issues Public Apology (The Jakarta Post (Indonesia))
- 25-07-15 Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo Denies Rumor of Japan Work Ban (Tempo (citing a statement from the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo))
- 25-01-10 Indonesians Break Ground on Japan's First "Indonesian Mosque" in Yokohama, to Hold Over 600 Worshippers (Tempo (Indonesia))
- 24-05-01 Asahi Shimbun Investigation Finds Posts That Fueled Anti-Kurdish Sentiment Were Actually Made by a Turkish Man Impersonating a Kurd (Asahi Shimbun Digital (detailed follow-up via SlowNews))