Japan’s justice minister said Tuesday the government has accepted into the country eight people displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, following an earlier announcement by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to do so as Tokyo ramps up its humanitarian support.
“We will work together with the relevant ministries and agencies so that we can proactively and swiftly accept” evacuees from Ukraine, Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said at a parliament session.
The eight people are Ukrainian nationals who have relatives or acquaintances in Japan, and were granted short-term residency for 90 days, according to the Immigration Services Agency of Japan.
All the evacuees had arrived in Japan by Tuesday after fleeing from Ukraine to neighboring countries such as Poland, it said.
The agency said it is taking a flexible approach to the evacuees in principle and is considering allowing them to extend their visa and permit them to work by granting a “designated activities” status of residence.
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