Osaka court grants refugee status to African man persecuted over homosexuality - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
The Osaka District Court on July 4 recognized an African man in his 30s who fled to Japan from his own country fearing persecution for his homosexuality as a refugee, overturning a government decision not to grant him asylum....
China has installed a buoy in the seas over Japan's southern continental shelf in the Pacific Ocean, in a move that could undermine Japan's maritime interests and further strain bilateral relations (mainichi.jp)
-Japan confirmed that the Chinese survey ship Xiang Yang Hong 22 set up the buoy in mid-June while monitoring the vessel as it sailed through Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, a government source said. The open-sea area in question is surrounded by Japan’s EEZ....