this manner.

## 3 Promotion of the Use of IOM Repatriation Programs

On the other hand, there are some foreign nationals whose deportation has been decided who attempt to evade deportation despite wanting to return to their home country because of fears about life after return.

Of these persons, with regard to foreign nationals who are deemed to require humanitarian consideration, programs are implemented for voluntary return and reintegration support with the cooperation of the IOM Japan office. This program aims to dispel the anxiety deportees feel about their return home and to encourage the voluntary return of the deportees through the provision of reintegration support after return such as job placements and medical help.

So far, a number of families and individuals have returned home through application of this program, and are receiving living and employment support after their return home from the respective local IOM office.

The Immigration Bureau intends to continue with implementation of these programs with the cooperation of the IOM, and to facilitate the voluntary return home of the deportees and reintegration in their home country.

## Article: Measures Against Deportation Evaders

Following the accidental death of a Ghanaian national during a government-sponsored deportation in March 2010, government-sponsored deportation of foreign nationals who had been issued with a deportation order but were attempting to evade deportation were suspended.

Subsequently, specialized training focusing on escorted deportation was given to immigration control officers, and measures for improvement were taken for the realization of safe and reliable escorted deportation work such as through a revision of the guidelines on escorted deportation, and subsequently this led to government-sponsored deportations accompanied by escort officers recommencing in January 2013. With regard to the escorted deportations, in principle, immigration control officers who have received specialized training are designated as escort officers, and safe and reliable deportations are being implemented in this way.

Meanwhile, various other problems relating to deportation evaders have arisen such as foreign nationals who are, in principle, required to apply for their passports themselves, refusing to acquire a temporary passport for return home or foreign nationals resisting the boarding of the aircraft for their deportation, and with regard to these sorts of problems, we have been proactively working on the embassies of the country of nationality of the deportation evaders and the airlines which the evaders are scheduled to board to obtain their cooperation, and moreover, since FY 2013 have been continuously implementing group deportations using charter flights in order to be able to implement safer and more reliable deportations, and in total up until FY 2015, have implemented deportations on four occasions deporting a total of 175 foreign nationals.

Following the temporary suspension of government-sponsored deportation of foreign nationals who had been issued with a deportation order but were attempting to evade deportation, more and more foreign nationals have similarly attempted to evade deportation, and this number has been increasing year by year, and therefore in the future, we will be proactively promoting even safer and more reliable deportation work, and will endeavor to reduce the number of deportation evaders.