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Don’t Look Back; an asylum story with hard lessons for Japan

Don’t Look Back; an asylum story with hard lessons for Japan

Gloria Onyekweli came to Japan just before Christmas in 2006, claiming asylum from her native Nigeria. She left her homeland after she said her fiancé, a political activist caught up in the Biafran separatist movement, was killed by the government. When she was told she was being sought by the
David McNeill Sep 10, 2021
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Refugees in Japan help give rural communities competitive edge

When C.I. Desert landed at the Narita International Airport in 2018, he stepped into a new life. Young, educated, and multilingual, he fled home, family and a teaching career in Cameroon, which was rife with civil unrest. The reason for choosing Japan, he says, was simple: “In 2018, if
Joan Bailey Feb 18, 2021
Safe at Last: A Tunisian woman’s journey to freedom

Safe at Last: A Tunisian woman’s journey to freedom

It was on a basketball court that Nahed* finally knew she was safe. “A few days after coming to Japan, I wanted to play basketball,” she says. “It was 11:30pm and there were two courts. Five or six guys were playing on one, so I started playing on the
Joan Bailey Feb 18, 2021

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