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World In Progress: Japan's only Syrian refugee

Abigail Leonard, TokyoJune 21, 2017

Japan has one of the strictest refugee policies of any industrialized democracy. Despite the fact that Japan is the world's third largest economy, it only accepted one Syrian refugee last year, with the government arguing it must look after its own people first before taking in refugees. Abigail Leonard met one of the few Syrians who successfully took refuge in Japan.

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