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Ukrainian refugees also permitted to live in Japan.

Japan granted asylum to 303 individuals in 2023 – a record high – but still small compared to the 98 percent whose applications were rejected.

The Japanese Ministry of Justice (MoJ) revealed this number in March, surpassing the 202 individuals granted asylum in 2022. Despite this increase, the approval rate for asylum seekers remained low at just 2.2 percent.

All in all, the total number of asylum seekers who lodged their applications in the Land of the Rising Sun reached 13,823 in 2023. According to Kyodo News, this is the second-highest number after the 19,629 people who sought asylum in 2017.

The increase comes amid changes to the stringent Japanese immigration laws, which created a quasi-refugee status for foreign nationals fleeing active conflict zones. Kyodo News also provided a breakdown of the 303 refugees whose asylum applications were approved.

Japan has seen a significant increase in refugee applications from countries such as Afghanistan, Myanmar and Ethiopia – representing more than a threefold increase from 2022 figures. A majority of the accepted refugees, 237 individuals, hailed from Afghanistan. Many of the refugees from Afghanistan were employees of the Japan International Cooperation Agency who fled the country after the fall of Kabul, officials said.

The Japanese Immigration Services Agency (ISA) meanwhile said 27 refugees from Myanmar were granted asylum. There were also six nationals from Ethiopia whose applications for asylum were accepted, the agency added.

Of the 13,823 applications for refugee status recorded by Japanese authorities, the highest number of applicants came from Sri Lanka at 3,778. Applications from Turkey and Pakistan ranked second and third highest.

“As border controls imposed due to COVID-19 have ended, the number of applicants for refugee status is increasing with the recovery of inbound travel to Japan,” the ISA said.

Ukrainian refugees also permitted to live in Japan

In addition to those granted full refugee status, the MoJ reported that 1,005 individuals were also allowed to stay in Japan on humanitarian grounds. The ISA, which is under the purview of the Justice Ministry, took the circumstances in their home countries as a basis for their continued stay despite not being recognized as refugees. These 1,005 came from nations such as Myanmar and Ukraine, with the latter comprising most of that number.

The changes to Japan’s refugee program under the revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law, which passed the National Diet in 2023, have also allowed for a new category of subsidiary protection. This program introduced on Dec. 1, 2023 seeks to provide asylum to persons escaping ongoing conflicts. According to Kyodo News, subsidiary protection gives successful applicants long-term resident visas in principle.

Since its introduction, 1,110 applications have been filed – with 1,101 of them from Ukrainian nationals escaping the war in their home nation. Of the total number, 647 applications for subsidiary protection were approved – 644 from Ukraine and three others from Sudan.

(Related: Hungary offers sanctuary for Ukrainians dodging Kyiv’s draconian military draft.)

“We will strive to provide prompt and stable protection while also making use of the complementary protection program,” said Japanese Justice Minister Ryuji Koizumi during a press conference.

Kyodo News mentioned that Japan has faced criticism for its strict immigration rules and for taking in far fewer refugees compared to countries in Europe and North America. But the Land of the Rising Sun’s stance appears to be a prudent one, as it isn’t burdened by a migrant crisis unlike the United States.

The National Pulse said, citing the U.S. Department of State, that 125,000 refugees are officially admitted into the U.S. annually – a number set by the Biden administration. It added that when the number of asylum seekers granted temporary residence pending an immigration court appearance is included, that number is much higher – likely in the millions per year.

Head over to Migrants.news for similar stories.

Watch Dan Bongino talking about the Biden administration’s migrant processing backlog in the clip below.

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Germany’s AfD party is asking for stricter migrant controls in response to the data.

Of the 44,232 prisoners in Germany, 24,259 are foreigners, according to data obtained from the German Federal Ministry of Justice.

That equals more than 50 percent, while the proportion of foreigners in the population is currently at 15 percent. The data, which shows the prisoner count as of March 31, 2023, was obtained after a written request from Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Leif Erik-Holm. The Federal Statistical Office listed 44,232 prisoners on the same date in all of Germany.

German newspaper Junge Freiheit, which first reported on the data, notes that the Federal Statistical Office and the Ministry of Justice have wildly different figures for the number of foreigners in German prisons. The Federal Statistical Office lists only 15,559 foreign prisoners, while the justice ministry lists 24,259. The paper notes that it is unclear why there is such a vast difference between the two figures.

One possible explanation is that those people with dual nationality, for example, if they have both a Turkish and German passport, are listed simply as “German” in the crime statistics. However, the justice ministry may have released their data taking this difference into account and listed these prisoners as “foreigners” instead, which would account for the greater total of foreign prison offenders.

However, the prisoner data greatly aligns with the crime statistics. In 2023, interior ministry data shows that 6 in 10 violent crimes were committed by foreigners in Germany. Violent crimes also reached record levels in 2023 in many categories, such as assault, and the share of foreign offenders reached a record high as well for all crimes, equaling 41 percent.

AfD MP Holm criticized the ruling left-liberal coalition in Germany, saying the data reveals their failed migration policy.

“Instead of providing full care for criminal foreigners at taxpayers’ expense, the deportation offensive announced by Scholz must finally be put into practice,” he said.

In addition, Germany “finally needs a rigid migration policy.” He said that mass immigration has not solved Germany’s problems but instead created dozens of new ones. “Nobody has anything against real skilled workers from abroad, but uncontrolled immigration is destroying the foundations of our society,” he added.

Similar data has been produced in countries like Austria and Switzerland. In Switzerland, two-thirds of all prisoners are foreigners. In Austria, this number is 50 percent.

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The cost of remedying the problem could exceed the cost of the 2021 infrastructure bill

One in four American households have soil in their backyards in excess of EPA safe guidelines, according to a new study. The EPA recently lowered its recommended screening levels for lead in residential soil by half, from 400 to 200 parts per million.

The financial costs of addressing this contamination are potentially vast. Experts believe it could cost between $290 billion and $1.2 trillion. For comparison, that’s more than the 2021 infrastructure bill.

Researchers looked at over 15,000 soil samples collected by regular people in their neighborhoods, and analyzed them for lead concentrations.

Samples from Chicago fared particularly badly, with 53% of household soils exceeding the new 200 parts per million guideline. Indianapolis and Burlington, Vermont also showed very high levels of contamination, with 37% and 24% of samples above the new guideline.

Regional variations may be explained by factors such as industrial history, the age of housing stock and past use of leaded gasoline.

If the cost of systematic remediation is likely to prove prohibitive, the researchers advocate a much simpler method: capping contaminated soil with fresh uncontaminated soil.

“Even the act of covering polluted soil with clean soils will permanently dilute the lead concentration of the total soil profile if soil perturbation occurs,” one of the study authors explains.

“Lead is the most easily solvable problem that we have. We know where it is, and we know how to avoid it. It’s just a matter of taking action.”

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Masculine men are the answer to Australia’s woes.

The totalitarian, morally-bankrupt nation of Australia has introduced a controversial new Ministry that specifically targets MEN and seeks to change MAN’s behavior. The Premier of Victoria – Jacinta Allan – has appointed a man named Tim Richardson to become the nation’s first Parliamentary Secretary for Men’s Behavior Change.

The new Ministry will seek to monitor, control and change men’s behavior throughout Australia. The Ministry will use online tools to make men have respectful dialogue with women, etc. To get the population behind this social engineering program, there must be a manufactured crisis. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the corporate state media claim the country is experiencing a “national crisis” of “gender-based violence.” The Prime Minister suggests that all men should take responsibility for this crisis, and the government must act now!

Real masculinity is a threat to the cowardice within totalitarian governments

Totalitarian governments like Australia’s are already rife with weak men and women who seek to restrain, control and abuse others. Throughout the past five years, Australia has proven to be a nation of cowardly leaders, regardless of gender. Not only has this government conspired to eradicate the rights of individuals, but they have also destroyed the very moral fabric of society in the name of “keeping people safe.”

With the emergence of the Secretary for Men’s Behavior Change, here is yet another example of where the Australian government seeks to keep people safe to embolden the power and false authority of a totalitarian state. The only difference is the target is now on men in general, as the government tells men what to think, how to behave and how to speak — falsely guilting all men to feel a sense of collective responsibility for being inherently bad.

At the heart, this social engineering program seeks to control public behavior and suppress dissent, feminizing the culture and penalizing men for becoming bold, strong leaders who speak out against injustices. The Australian government is also trying to feed gender warfare, to foster distrust between the sexes, while simultaneously suppressing the population further.

The New Ministry emphasizes the need to alter men’s internet discourse, changing their attitudes towards women, transgenders and gays, and making them more submissive to the social engineering programs. This effort represents a broader agenda to regulate online speech and control how men think. The targeting of men serves as a pretext to bolster authoritarian measures, under the guise of protecting transgenders and other minorities. A divided and emasculated population, where men are forced to be docile and silent on controversial issues, is a population that can be ruled as slaves.

Masculine men are the answer to Australia’s woes

To streamline their totalitarian agenda and maintain control, the ruling elite want to target the segment of the population most likely to challenge their authority: traditionally masculine men. Masculinity is now a threat, because the Australian government is long overdue for reform, for a return to sound principles and ethics. The ruling elites have abandoned constitutional principles, and no longer possess any moral authority on any relative cultural issues. Historically, masculinity has been the driving force behind these changes, defending traditional values. Strong men, who have been through trials and tribulations and defended their families and sacred honor, are best suited to challenge a cowardly cabal of petty tyrants.

Australia has been at the forefront of various authoritarian measures in recent years, including implementing bodily restrictions, unlawful quarantine camps and vaccine passports during the scandalous COVID-19 plandemic. The broader societal trend across Western countries of discrediting traditional masculinity, positions Australia as a testing ground for similar initiatives worldwide. This social engineering program demonizes masculinity itself as a danger that needs to be restrained, justifying further policies and legislation that target men, forcing men to be collectively responsible for individual crimes they did not commit and forcing them to feel bad for being strong and independent.

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Despite confessing to the murder and dismemberment of the couple, the prime suspect has been released

A suspect who confessed to the killing of a British couple and to selling their body parts for use in witchraft (muti) has been released by South African authorities.

Anthony and Gillian Dinnis, both in their 70s and originally from Kent, England, disappeared without a trace from their farm in KwaZulu-Natal’s Mooi River area on 30 August last year.

After their disappearance, their children began receiving strange text messages demanding money for their release.

The couple’s gardener soon became a suspect. He later admitted to being one of three men who kidnapped the couple, before killing and dismembering them. Their body parts were then sold, or planned to be sold, by the suspects.

Despite the confession, and being refused bail, the suspect was released on 13 June this year. The National Prosecuting Authority has said there is “insufficient evidence” to proceed with the prosecution.

The systematic murder of white South Africans, and especially farmers, has become on the most politicised issues in the country. Hundreds of attacks take place each year, and dozens are murdered. According to Afriforum’s 2022 report, there were 333 recorded attacks and 50 murders of white farmers in that year.

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