### 2. Review of the Organizational Structure of the Immigration Control Offices

With regard to expansion of the organization in FY 2017, in order to realize prompt yet strict immigration examinations, in addition to increasing the number of supervising inspectors at Fukuoka Airport Branch of Fukuoka Regional Immigration Bureau, the number of chief inspectors and supervising inspectors was increased respectively at Sendai Airport Branch of Sendai Regional Immigration Bureau, Toyama Branch Office of Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau, Hiroshima Airport Branch Office of Hiroshima Regional Immigration Bureau and both Nagasaki Branch Office and Tsushima Branch Office of Fukuoka Regional Immigration Bureau.

In addition, in order to further respond to the increasing number of cases of adjudications on landing, a new adjudication department was established at Haneda Airport Branch Office of Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau and Kansai Airport Branch Office of Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau respectively, and supervising inspectors to instruct and supervise the verification work of fingerprint data and facial image data were added to the information management department of Narita Airport District Immigration Office of Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau.

In order to improve the system of statuses of residence, the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau divided the existing employment inspection department into Business and Employment Inspection Department 1 and Business and Employment Inspection Department 2 in order to appropriately and promptly handle the rapidly increasing work volume of inspections. Moreover, additional supervising inspectors were assigned to the Student Inspection Department to appropriately conduct inspections pertaining to persons undergoing education at a Japanese language school.

In order to promptly and appropriately establish a system for the protection of refugees, additional supervising inspectors responsible for refugee recognition work were assigned to the Refugees Examination Department of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau and the Employment and Permanent Residence Inspection Department of the Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau. In order to respond appropriately to requests for administrative reviews of refugee recognition applications pertaining to the increasing number of refugee recognition applications, the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau newly established the Refugee Adjudication Department, and additional supervising inspectors were added to the Adjudication Department of the Nagoya Immigration Bureau.

Furthermore, in order to establish a system for a safe and secure society, additional supervising immigration control officers were assigned as superintendents of the officers allocated to state-sponsored deportation at the First Deportation Department of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau and the Deportation Department of the Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau. At the Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau, supervising immigration control officers were assigned to the Deportation Department to serve as superintendents of officers monitoring the provisional release of detainees granted provisional release, and in addition, supervising immigration control officers in charge of the officers of the mobile border teams were assigned to the Planning and Management Department.

In addition to this, the liaison coordinators were added to the General Affairs Department of the Higashi Nihon Immigration Control Center.

Further, most branch offices (including branch offices of district immigration offices) of