This report updates AI’s report of March 1993 on inadequate protection for refugees and asylum-seekers. It highlights cases since the March 1993 report which demonstrate that asylum-seekers continue to face difficulties in submitting claims for asylum, that rules continue to be applied in an overly stringent manner, that there are still problems with the interview process and that people who almost certainly would face serious human rights violations in their own countries are being denied refugee status and being forced to leave Japan.
