made to reduce the increasing number of illegal foreign residents through strengthened crackdowns, reinforced collection and analysis of information on illegal foreign residents, and the promotion of voluntary appearances.

• “Imposter residents” are foreign nationals who are residing in Japan having illegally received entry or residence permission as though they come under one of the statuses of residence having disguised their identity or activities such as by using forged or altered documents or false documents under the cover of a fake marriage, fake studies or fake employment, etc., or they may not necessarily have concealed the purpose of their activities from the onset but are currently engaged in illegal work which is far removed from their status of residence. Therefore, the Immigration Bureau is striving to strengthen the detection of imposter foreign residents and to reinforce the collection and analysis of information.

• Based on an agreement with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) concluded in September 2010, the Immigration Bureau and the JFBA have arranged for legal consultations, etc. be provided by attorneys to the detainees.

• When a detainee has been issued with a deportation order, but there are no prospects for a deportation owing to circumstances preventing the deportation such as the fact that a detainee suffering from a disease or the institution of litigation, the Immigration Bureau actively utilizes provisional release, and makes efforts to ensure the implementation of more suitable deportation procedures.

• Based on the opinions given by the “Immigration Detention Facilities Visiting Committee”, the Immigration Bureau will continue to strive for greater transparency in security treatment and will endeavor to improve and enhance the operation of the immigration detention centers, etc.

☐ Promotion of Appropriate and Prompt Refugee Protection

• Based on the purport of the recommendations in the reports submitted in December 2014 by the “Sixth Immigration Policy Discussion Panel” which is the private consultative group for the Minister of Justice and the “Expert Meeting on the Refugee Recognition System”, the findings of the “Summary of the Revision of the Operation of the Refugee Recognition System” were compiled on September 15, 2015 for the purpose of (i) clarifying the persons eligible for protection, the decisions on recognition and the procedures, (ii) strengthening the system and infrastructure pertaining to refugee recognition administration, and (iii) appropriate handling of applications attempting to abuse or misuse the refugee recognition system, and measures are to be implemented respectively.

• A program to accept and support the resettlement of Myanmarese refugees who were staying in refugee camps in Thailand was launched in FY 2010 as a pilot project for the acceptance of refugees desiring resettlement, and as of FY 2014, 18 families comprising 86 family members have come to Japan.

Subsequently, in accordance with the contents of the “Implementation of the Acceptance of Refugees through Resettlement” (approved by the Cabinet on January 24, 2014) and the “Specific Measures for the Admission of Refugees through Resettlement” (decision of the Liaison and Coordination Council for Refugee Issues of January 24, 2014), Myanmarese refugees temporarily staying in Malaysia came to be eligible for acceptance, and six families comprising 19 family members came to Japan in FY 2015.

## ☐ Responses to International Society and International Situations

• The number of nurse and certified care worker candidates accepted up until FY 2015 pursuant to an EPA was 1,513 from Indonesia, 1,297 from the Philippines, and 290 from Viet Nam.

• On April 28, 2015 an outline agreement was reached at the U.S.-Japan summit meeting on the implementation of a bilateral travel facilitation initiative pertaining to the U.S. Global Entry Program (GEP) and Japan Trusted Traveler Program (a Japanese new program making foreign nationals who have been identified as “trusted travelers” eligible to use the automated gates), and on October 20 in the same year, a Joint Statement was exchanged by the U.S. and Japanese authorities.