Asylum seekers in Japan embassy
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A group of seven asylum seekers, believed to be North Korean, reach Japan's embassy in Beijing.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged the captors of Shosei Koda in Iraq to set him free. In an interview to Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent in Tokyo on Wednesday, he said, &quot;Koda is a civilian who
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Japanese authorities are questioning four people who arrived at a northern port on Saturday on a boat of unknown origin, suspecting that they may be North Koreans seeking asylum.
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Twenty-nine people believed to be North Korean defectors seeking asylum broke into the Japanese School in Beijing on Wednesday morning by cutting through a wire fence, Foreign Ministry officials in Tokyo said.
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TOKYO Aug. 24, 2004 - Japan&#39;s Justice Ministry on Tuesday rejected former chess champion Bobby Fischer&#39;s demand for protection as a political refugee, issuing an order to deport him.
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Seoul has passed controversial new measures intended to slow the flow of asylum seekers.
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Japan should fingerprint and photograph all foreigners entering the country as part of efforts to tighten border controls and keep terrorists out, a senior security panel recommended Friday.
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Japan is to fingerprint and photograph foreigners entering the country from next month in an anti-terrorism policy that is stirring anger among foreign residents and human rights activists.
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TOKYO Japanese leaders are struggling to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq holding a Japanese traveler hostage. The Japanese government says it has few details on the kidnapping of the 24-year-old tourist.
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Japan plans to issue a visa for former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit this year, a government spokesman said Thursday, a decision that could further fray Tokyo's relations with China.
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A group of suspected North Koreans has entered the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in an apparent bid to win political asylum. A Canadian embassy spokesman says some 45 people scaled the wall around the embassy compound Wednesday.
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BEIJING - Japanese Embassy officials in Beijing described Thursday 29 people believed to be defectors from North Korea as being relaxed a day after they entered the Japanese school in the Chinese capital to seek asylum.
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States, which may pave the way for him to leave Japan after almost half a year in detention. He has been held in Japan since July when he was stopped with a passport that US officials said was invalid.
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Japan's justice minister said "a friend of a friend ... is a member of al Qaeda" and had entered the country several times, using various passports, an officer of the Justice Ministry told CNN.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Ban Ki-moon sent a letter of comfort to Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, regarding the murder of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq.
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Eight people believed to be North  Korean refugees clambered over the wall of a Japanese school in  Beijing on Monday to seek asylum, a Japanese embassy official  said.
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A group of 29 North Koreans, including two children, sought asylum Friday morning in a South Korean school in Beijing, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap News reported.