Japan to accept 30 Myanmar refugees taking shelter in Thailand

Friday 19th December, 05:55 AM JST

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some14some at 07:11 AM JST - 19th December

After 3 years? may be final count will reduce to just three.
gonemad at 09:31 AM JST - 19th December

Is this a joke?
rurika at 09:36 AM JST - 19th December

30? how generous of them.
Kameleon at 02:14 PM JST - 19th December

30 - How sweet:)

I can imagine the politians fighting over this relentlessly:

"Keep them contained!"
kitakirisuzume at 02:20 PM JST - 19th December

"reception facilities" sounds ominously euphemistic, let's hope someone from all those ministeries can convince the others to make everything a little less world war 2-like for these 30.
zaichik at 03:31 PM JST - 19th December

Let's hope Japan doesn't weasel out of this - God knows, those refugees from Burma need all the help they can get.
smithinjapan at 09:07 PM JST - 19th December

Take them NOW; they'd be better off waiting until said fiscal year in a Japanese reception facility than where they are now. It sounds like the government is waiting for a few of them to be killed/die off before they have to accept more refugees than they've accepted in the past 10 years combined.
European1 at 12:16 AM JST - 23rd December

2011??? WoW!!!! Thank you japan for its kindness. Japanese society will shrink further so they need at least those 30 (in 2011 maybe less) for 3K jobs.