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MIGRANTS

Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 19, 2017
730 more migrants rescued in Mediterranean as Europe-bound flow grows
Humanitarian ships picked up about 730 migrants on Sunday from rubber and wooden boats in the Mediterranean, adding to a lengthening list of rescue operations in recent days.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 16, 2017
Rescue ships pick up 1,000 boat migrants off Libya, Italian coast guard says
Humanitarian rescue ships picked up more than 1,000 migrants from nine rubber and wooden boats off the coast of Libya on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 26, 2017
2,300 migrants rescued in Mediterranean, two die
Rescuers saved around 2,300 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the central Mediterranean on Thursday, but also recovered two dead bodies, the Italian coast guard said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 16, 2017
Italy beefs up Libyan coast guard, raising more humanitarian concerns over migrant handling
Italy gave the Libyan coast guard four repaired patrol boats on Monday to beef up Libya's efforts to stop people smuggling, but the support worries humanitarian groups operating rescue ships near the Libyan coast.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 15, 2017
Italy rescues 484 migrants, finds seven dead as calls mount to secure south Libya
Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy's coast guard said.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 11, 2017
Libya coast guard returns 300 migrants to Tripoli after altercation with NGO ship
Libya's coast guard intercepted about 300 migrants packed onto a wooden boat and returned them to Tripoli on Wednesday after warning off a ship that was preparing to pick them up for passage to Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 5, 2017
Migrants recount how smugglers killed teen for baseball cap after 560 rescued
Rescuers picked up 560 migrants from unsafe boats off the coast of Libya on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, including the body of a young man who the migrants said had been shot by smugglers on the beach for his baseball cap.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 12, 2017
1,700 homeless after blaze guts France migrant camp amid fight between Kurds, Afghans
A fire has destroyed most of a migrant camp in northern France after fighting between rival groups injured five people, leaving officials scrambling on Tuesday to rehouse around 1,700 people.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 27, 2017
1,200 more migrants saved off Libya, raising suspicion of trafficker-rescuer collusion
Humanitarian ships rescued almost 1,200 migrants who were crossing the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend on an array of small, tightly packed boats, Doctors Without Borders said on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 6, 2017
Sicily takes in 1,300 rescued migrants as arrivals surge 57% amid growing violence in Libya
Almost 1,300 migrants arrived in Sicily on rescue ships over the weekend after crossing the Mediterranean, while a 16-year-old boy died on one of the ships, Italy's Coast Guard said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2017
Migration: a threat or a necessity?
By targeting immigration control as one of the prime aims of Brexit, the British government may find that it has kicked an own goal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2017
Why Dutch sentiment has turned against immigrants
Soon after she moved into her new neighborhood, Ijburg, on the eastern outskirts of Amsterdam, in 2005, Xandra Lammers started a blog about it. Ijburg is a curious place, an architectural wonder, built in the middle of a lake on reclaimed land and partly on water. She still keeps the blog alive, but...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2017
Europe's fear of Muslims runs deep
A poll on European attitudes toward immigration, Islam and terrorism, shows that a majority of Europeans don't want any more Muslim immigration.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 7, 2017
Anger erupts among 'languishing' migrants in Greek camp over living conditions
A group of Afghan refugees in Greece protested their living conditions on Monday by chanting "Liar!" as they tried to block a minister from entering the former Athens airport terminal where they have been stranded for months.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 13, 2017
800 migrants rescued off six rubber boats as Libyan traffickers exploit weather window
Some 800 migrants were plucked from flimsy rubber boats on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, as Libya-based people smugglers took advantage of a window of good midwinter weather to send them to sea.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 12, 2017
Aid agencies alarmed over reports of migrants freezing to death in Balkans
Dozens of migrants are at risk of freezing to death in Europe after heavy snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures hit Greece and the Balkans, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2016
Recruiter criticized over list ranking foreign trainees by nationality
The list named six different East Asian countries and scored them based on eight categories such as religion, fondness for Japan and Japanese language capability.
WORLD / Society
Nov 8, 2016
Austria, Balkan states fear migrant flood if EU-Turkey deal collapses
Austria said on Monday it will meet with its Balkan neighbors to discuss what action they might take if a deal with Turkey aimed at restricting the flow of illegal migrants into the European Union collapses.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 4, 2016
First Calais, now France set to clear migrant camp near Paris metro station
French authorities prepared on Thursday to dismantle a makeshift migrant camp in central Paris, its numbers swelled by refugees from a larger settlement in Calais that was meanwhile shut down for good.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 27, 2016
France finishes clearing Calais 'Jungle' camp of migrants
French authorities said on Wednesday they had finished clearing the "Jungle" shanty town outside Calais built by migrants who had hoped to cross to Britain but who are now mostly being dispersed around France.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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