Quick Facts

Number of Immigration Detention Sites: 19

Detention Capacity: 3,410 (2005)

Annual Number of Deportations:
33,192 (2005)

Undocumented Population:
193,745 (2006)

Number of asylum seekers:
1,515 (end of 2007)


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Last updated: December 2007

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List of Detention Sites

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Name Status (Year) Location Facility Type Security Management Authority Capacity Reported Population Segregation
Chubu Airport District Immigration Office In use Nagoya Prefecture Transit Zone - Airport Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan 29    
Fukuoka Regional Immigration Bureau   Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Higashi-Nihon Immigration Center   Ushiku City, Ibaragi Prefecture Migrant Detention Center Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Hiroshima Regional Immigration Bureau   Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Landing Prevention Facility at Kansai Airport   Osaka Prefecture Transit Zone - Airport Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Landing Prevention Facility at Narita Airport   Narita, TokyoPrefecture Transit Zone - Airport Secure Contractor Immigration Bureau of Japan 350   Gender segregation
Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau   Nagoya Prefecture Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan 120    
Nishi-Nihon Immigration Center   Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture Migrant Detention Center Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Omura Immigration Center   Omura City, Nagasaki Prefecture Migrant Detention Center Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau   Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Sapporo Regional Immigration Bureau   Sapporo Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Sendai Regional Immigration Bureau   Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Takamatsu Regional Immigration Bureau   Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      
Tokyo Detention Bureau   Tokyo Immigration Office Secure   Immigration Bureau of Japan      

 

Sources
(This is only a partial list. More detailed information is available upon request.)

  • Amnesty International. 2005. Japan: Welcome to Japan? Amnesty International. ASA 22/002/2002. May 2002.
  • Dean, Meryll. 2006. Japan: Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Writenet Report by Professor Meryll Dean, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Commissioned by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Protection Information Section (DIP). February 2006. (Information updated until May 2005).
  • Immigration Bureau of Japan. 2005. Immigration Control Report 2005. Immigration Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan.
  • Immigration Bureau of Japan. 2006. Immigration Control Report 2006. Immigration Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan.
  • Immigration Bureau of Japan. Website. Locations, contact information and assigned tasks: Hiroshima Regional Immigration Bureau. Immigration Bureau of Japan. http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/soshiki/kikou/address/06.html  (accessed 19 November 2007).
  • Immigration Bureau of Japan. Website. Locations, contact information and assigned tasks: Immigration Detention Centers. Immigration Bureau of Japan. http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/soshiki/kikou/address/09.html (accessed 14 August 2007).
  • Immigration Bureau of Japan. Website. Deportation and Departure Order System: Detention, Meeting and Giving Gifts to Foreign Nationals Under Detention, Provisional Release. Immigration Bureau of Japan. http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/tetuduki/index.html (accessed 14 August 2007).
  • Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. 1951. Japanese Ministry of Justice. Cabinet Order No.319 of 1951. Latest Amendment: Law No.43 of 2006. http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/icrr-01.html (accessed 3 December 2007).
  • Japanese Ministry of Justice. 2006. Forty-fifth Annual Statistical Report of Emigration and Immigration Management (Eighteenth Year of Heisei Era) (In Japanese). National Printing Bureau.
  • Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, Ms. Gabriela Rodriguey Pizarro. 2003. Report of the Special Rapporteur Submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/62: Addendum Communications sent to the Governments and replies received. UN Commission on Human Rights. E/CN.4/2003/85/Add.1. 30 January 2003. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/migration/rapporteur/annual.htm (accessed February 2009).
  • Yagishita, Misaki (Amnesty International). 2007. Two email messages to Navitri Putri Guillaume (Global Detention Project). 27 & 28 November 2007.