By KAZUYA ITO/ Staff Writer
April 2, 2021 at 15:20 JST
A Kurdish man waits for the result of his asylum application in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, in February. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the number of foreign nationals applying for asylum in Japan in 2020 dipped to 3,936, a drop of 62 percent from the previous year, according to the Immigration Services Agency of Japan. [Read More]
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