![]() ![]() It's Brand New 21st Century Retro, Synthwave, Outrun, and 80s & 90s jams! It's antics and hilarity!īring Pizza! It's a party! It's Vox Populi with Who Ha!Ġ0 Regal Theater Policy Roller Coaster 90s TrailerĠ0 Intro / Beetlejuice (1989) Dante's Inferno LoopĠ1 The Northern Lights - Danger Zone (Cover)Ġ4 Stan Bush - Fight To Survive (Kumite) (Extended) from Bloodsport 1988Ģ of 2 Richard Souther - Uncharted Waters (1986)Ġ7 HEART ATTACK / Dragon Sound - Friends (132 Hearts)ġ3 Who Ha - Keepin' It 80s with Marko MaricĠ0 Sign Off / Who Ha / GUST - Rabbit Is Good, Rabbit Is Wise credits Plus, we get a new age Double Trouble with Diamond Field and we listen to new music from The Northern Lights, Takahashi Jones, & Faint Waves! We then add Andy Last to the live call to chat about the state of Soundcloud, condiments on hot dogs and burgers, and getting called names in Italian without realizing it. Written by veteran Asahi Shimbun writers, the column provides useful perspectives on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.Synthwave Producer Extraordinaire Darthbuick stops by to play Lightning Round! and tells us all about his retro childhood growing up in Victoria, BC, Canada. Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a wide range of topics, including culture, arts and social trends and developments. That was really a lot of fingerprinting, and I asked the Somali man if he found that to be excessive.īut he replied to the effect, “Compared with life, this is no big deal.” The police took prints of all his 10 fingertips twice, and then took prints of the entire fingers on both hands-not just the fingertips-once. Recognition of refugee status is a life-and-death issue for applicants.Īfter covering the refugee issue on the island of Lampedusa, I went to Rome to interview police authorities.Īt a police station, a refugee from Somalia was being fingerprinted. It would be unconscionable if cases that should have been approved got rejected due to oversight. I fear this person ’s statement could be used some day as grounds for justifying deportation of those who did not meet all the “requirements” on paper.Īnd with regards to the six cases, did the counselor mean that only these six cases passed the examination, or that officials could find no more than six cases worth examining out of 2,000? One counselor has stated, “Out of a total of 2,000 cases we examined, there were only six where we were able to determine with confidence that the applicants should be granted refugee status.” In the screening of applications, refugee examination counselors, of whom there are 111, wield considerable influence. ![]() I wonder if this system is anywhere close to meeting the international standard of “when in doubt, rule in favor of the applicant.” ![]() ![]() The new system enables the government to deport applicants while their requests are still being processed. Of the many issues that have been pointed out about the revised law, the one that causes me the greatest concern is whether Japan ’s system of determining refugee status is functioning properly. Japan on June 9 passed into law a revision to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law. I just hope all applicants will be granted asylum, except in cases that leave absolutely no doubt that they were fraudulent.” One major headache for front-line rescue personnel was Italy ’s vexingly complicated application procedure for refugee status.Īt the time, Italy had just enacted a law to toughen its immigration policy, and everyone was still struggling with the confusion brought about by the new legislation.īut one senior official said: “Be it poverty or political oppression, each refugee has their own reason for fleeing their country. One rescue official, referring to their plight, explained that no new arrivals are asked if they were asylum seekers or economically motivated migrants. Two decades ago, at the height of a growing refugee crisis, I visited the small Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in southern Italy to report on the boatloads of migrants and asylum seekers from North Africa washing ashore there.Įvery local rescue authority official I interviewed was uniformly sympathetic to the arrivals who had risked their lives crossing the sea. ![]()
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