The Upper House on Friday passed a controversial bill revising rules on asylum and the detention of those seeking the status, after a tangled route through both chambers and a final forcing of the law through parliament by the ruling coalition.
The law, which has prompted widespread debate, seeks to address perceived drawbacks of Japan¡¯s existing legislation and standard handling of asylum matters, largely intervening in three areas:
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