Japan on Friday unveiled its guidelines on refugee recognition for the first time to facilitate greater transparency in the wake of criticism over its history of accepting far fewer refugees compared to Western countries.The immigration agency said separately that Japan gave refugee status to 202 people in 2022, a record high since it began granting it in 1982. But the number lags behind that of European countries, where refugees are often taken in by their tens of thousands, and the United States which recently raised its admissions cap to 125,000.Among the notable cases cited in the guide…READ FULL ARTICLE
