Last year, the government reexamined the contents of the proposed revisions to the Immigration Control Law, which were scrapped, and how to detain foreigners and protect people fleeing conflict, but more time is needed. As such, it was decided that resubmission to the extraordinary Diet session in autumn would be postponed.
The revisions to the Immigration Control Law and other laws submitted by the government to the ordinary session of the Diet last year included a review of the way foreigners are detained, and even in cases where the criteria for refugee recognition were not met, people fleeing conflict were treated as refugees. It included the creation of a new system to protect
However, the bill was scrapped after opposition parties refused to vote on the issue of the death of a Sri Lankan woman in a detention facility.
The government was reconsidering the content of this bill with the aim of resubmitting it to the extraordinary Diet session this fall, but decided to postpone it because it decided that more time was needed. .