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As the number of applicants seeking refugee status in Japan is on course to set a record this year, nonprofit organizations working to support them say asylum seekers are more than ever in need of aid.
At the office of Japan Association for Refugees in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, the telephone keeps ringing with calls from one asylum seeker after another desperate for help.
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