Record 385 foreigners in Japan stripped of resident status in 2017

Japan revoked the resident status of a record 385 foreigners staying in the country in 2017 on the back of a surge in suspicious cases involving students, the Justice Ministry said Friday.The figure soared 31.0 percent from a year earlier to hit the highest level since 2005 when comparable data became available.With cases linked to student status doubling from a year earlier and accounting for 44.7 percent of the total, a ministry official said an overall rise in the number of foreign students in Japan may have pushed up the figure.As of May last year, the number of foreign students in Japa…READ FULL ARTICLE