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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Japan Minister Brings Ukrainians from Poland on Government Plane

Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi attends a news conference with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Twenty Ukrainians arrived in Tokyo Tuesday on a government plane with Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi after his trip to Poland, as Japan cautiously welcomes those fleeing Moscow's invasion.

Japan typically accepts just a few dozen refugees a year from thousands of applicants, and while it has cracked open its doors to Ukrainians, it calls them "evacuees" rather than refugees.

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