Ukrainian evacuees brought in by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi arrive at Haneda airport, in Tokyo, Japan on April 5, 2022. - Reuters
TOKYO (AFP): Twenty Ukrainians arrived in Tokyo Tuesday (April 5) 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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