Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishA Chinese family running a Shanghai restaurant near Umeda was told to leave Japan within 30 days after immigration rejected their manager visa renewal, even though they met the tightened criteria.
The cabinet has held near 50% support a year after taking office. The conservative-leaning opposition supporters who once backed it have been drifting away since January.
Nobuo Kitamura told the Upper House judicial affairs committee that officials waited too long to act on an unapproved mosque in a restricted zone in Saitama, and called for faster enforcement nationwide.
Two others were pulled from the sea unharmed after the group was carried off a breakwater in Ibaraki Prefecture.
The first meeting of a 14-member expert council set the goal of a society that keeps both growth and security even as the population shrinks, with the strategy due by the end of the year.
