Refugee Law and Practice in Japan

Osamu Arakaki is Professor at the College of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. He was Refugee Adjudication Counsellor for the Japanese Minister of Justice and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo.

Contents: Introduction; Crisis of refugee protection; Refugees and Japan; Refugee status determination procedure; Refugee definition; Refugee rights; Conclusion: towards international cooperation for human rights and world peace; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.