As part of Sophia University United Nations Weeks October 2018

we invite you to a timely panel discussion



"Refugees and Asylum Seekers in a Multi-Cultural Japan?"

多文化日本における難民認定希望者



Date: 17 October（Wed） 18:00～20:00 （Open 17:30）

Venue: Yotsuya Campus, Building 2, Conference Hall

Open to all at no cost



Language： Japanese and English

(with simultaneous interpretation)



Program

・Welcome: David Slater, Professor at Sophia University

・Panel Discussion



○ Dirk Hebecker, UNHCR (United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees) Representative in Japan

○Ishikawa Eri

Chair of the Board of the Japan Association for Refugees

○Koyama Hideyuki

Professor at Sophia University, Faculty of Theology,

Chair of the Board of the Forum for Refugees Japan



Today, we are in the midst of a global refugee crisis,

with more than 65 million displaced people around the

world. Even in Japan, thousands of people from all

over the world have applied for refugee status.

This symposium asks: Who are these people?

Why have they come to Japan? How is Japan

supporting them? Can these displaced people find

a place in Japan, and if so, where? Can Japan

become a more multi-cultural society? And what

can we, as a university community, do to support

these people in need?



With support from:

The UNHCR Representative in Japan

Sophia Refugee Support Group