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Japan Times : PUBLISHED FIGURES ARE HALF THE STORY - Foreigner crime stats cover up a real cop-out (October 2002)
Japan Times : Downloadable discrimination - The Immigration Bureau's new snitching Web site is both short-sighted and wide open to all manner of abuses (March 2004)
Japan Times : Students pay price in visa crackdown - Foreign students locked up for overstaying visas by days (May 2004)
Japan Times : Visa villains - Immigration law overdoes enforcement, penalties (June 2004)
Japan Times : Japan and the immigration issue - Barry Brophy and Debito Arudou offer two views on the immigration question (September 2004)
BBC News : Japan plans foreign fingerprinting (March 2006)
Bloomberg : Japan Store Withdraws `Foreigner Crime File' Magazine (February 2007)
Japan Times : Foreigner registration system to be revised - May lead to better services, more control (January 2008)
Japan Times : SKILLED FOREIGN WORKERS TARGETED - Japanese fluency could ease visa conditions (January 2008)
Many more articles on foreigners rights can be found on Debito.org
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