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Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill ,
Matsutani Minoru ,
Alex Martin ,
Kamiya Setsuko  and
Hongo Jun
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Two decades ago, as Japan's economic engine hurtled along at full throttle, the Justice Ministry announced a policy that seemed to signal an end to its attempt to keep the world at bay. After years of restricting new immigrants to a trickle of white-collar professionals, the country would start accepting mostly unskilled workers to feed a labor shortage in its hungry factories.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 20 , May 2009 , e1
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