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- Asia-Pacific Newsletter(FOCUS) Vol.58
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- South Korea; Support for Multicultural Families Act Enacted
- Japanese Government launched an “Advisory Panel of Eminent Persons on Policies for the Ainu people” - It plans to compile proposals next year
- Law concerning Special Rules regarding Sex Status of a Person with Gender Identification Disorder; Lower House eases the requirements for changing Sex Status on the Family Register
- Supreme Court of Japan – Marriage Requirements for Parents of Children Born out of Wedlock for the Granting of Japanese Nationality: Nationality Act Deemed Unconstitutional
- Upper and Lower Houses of the Diet of Japan recognize the Ainu as Indigenous People
- Ministry of Justice of Japan Accepted for the First Time a Marriage Certificate to Register the Child of a Woman without a Family Registry
- Ministry of Education of Japan Announces the “Approaches to Teaching Human Rights Education” (Third Report) to Relevant Entities
- Supreme Court of Japan Ruled that Rejection of the Legal Visit to the Witness Was Not Unlawful
- Police Introduces Partial Recording and Videotaping of Interrogations on a Trial Basis
- Supreme Court Ruled Punishment for Flier Distribution was Constitutional
- Prosecution Introduces Partial Recording and Videotaping of Interrogation on a Full Scale
- National Police Agency: 43 Victims of Trafficking were protected in Japan in 2007
- Ministry of Justice: 40 Victims of Trafficking Protected in Japan in 2007
- 41 individuals were recognized as Refugees in Japan in 2007
- Guidelines for Ensuring Appropriate Interrogations in Police Investigations
- New Basic Policy Adopted for Domestic Violence Prevention Act
- South Korean National Assembly Approved Government Support (JPY 360 Million) for Korean Residents in Utoro Area, Kyoto, Japan
- Japan: Ministry of Justice Revised Guidelines on Foreign Trainees/Technical Interns
- Japan: Act to Support Japanese Returnees from China Amended
- “Fingerprints and Mug Shots” Now Required for Foreigners’ Entry into Japan
- Japan: Supreme Court Orders Compensation for Korean A-Bomb Survivors
- South Korea: Ministry of National Defense Promotes Introduction of Alternative Services for “Conscientious Objectors”
- South Korea: Constitutional Court Recognized Equal Labour Rights for “Industrial Trainees”
- Japan: Offence of Human Trafficking Applied to Case of Japanese Woman for the First Time
- Japan: Domestic Violence Prevention Act Amended
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