FY2011 International Workshop on Acceptance of Foreign Nationals and Their Integration into Japan: -Great East Japan Earthquake and the Policy on Foreign Nationals-

February 20, 2012
Japanese

As it is almost a year since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Meiji University and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) will hold the "FY2011 International Workshop on Acceptance of Foreign Nationals and Their Integration into Japan: -Great East Japan Earthquake and the Policy on Foreign Nationals-" on March 1, 2012 at Meiji University, Tokyo.
Parliamentary Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Ryuji Yamane is scheduled to attend to address the workshop with opening remarks. Taking into account the impact made by the earthquakes, tsunamis and Fukushima nuclear accidents on foreign nationals living in Japan, experts and practitioners from inside and outside of Japan including a foreign national resident who directly experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake will discuss the subject of "Great East Japan Earthquake and the Policy on Foreign Nationals."

(*The foregoing is a provisional translation. The date indicated above denotes the date of issue of the original press release in Japanese.)

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