Immigration

30 April 2025
Students on campus at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. on April 15. 
People leave a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's administration and against student visas being revoked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 17.
26 April 2025
People protest outside Milwaukee Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, after Wisconsin county judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by U.S. officials on April 25.
Trump administration

US charges judge with obstructing immigration arrest in Trump crackdown

Crowd protests outside the Milwaukee courthouse, chanting 'free the judge now'

26 April 2025
Indian students contribute over $8 billion annually to the American economy. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP and Getty Images)
Immigration

Indian students look beyond US amid immigration crackdown

Arbitrary detentions and visa revocations have dulled the country's appeal

25 April 2025
Chinese buyers are coming forward to restore "Kyo-machiya" in Kyoto. (Photo by Yo Inoue)
Chinese in Japan

Waves of Chinese buyers save Japan's traditional properties

'Machiya,' temples, sake breweries welcome new successors

20 April 2025
Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen, right, meets Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on April 17. (Senator Chris Van Hollen via X/Handout via Reuters)
Trump administration

U.S. senator meets wrongly deported man in El Salvador amid court fight

Supreme Court has directed Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return

18 April 2025
Hong Kong is a friction point between the governments of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chinese President Xi Jinping. After the city refused entry to one of its members of parliament, who was on a personal trip, Britain said that "it would be unacceptable for any MP to be denied entry for simply expressing their views."(Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)
Hong Kong security law

Hong Kong spars with U.K. over MP's entry denial, blasts U.S. tariffs

'Wolf warrior' messaging comes as city marks 'National Security Education Day'

15 April 2025
A Chinese-run hotel that sits a prime location in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, appeals to well-heeled customers with hot spring baths in every room.
Chinese in Japan

Chinese customers and capital fire up Japan's hot spring resorts

Investors from world's No. 2 economy are buying up hotels and other facilities

13 April 2025
Salvadoran prison guards escort alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gang recently deported by the U.S. to be imprisoned in El Salvador on March 31. (Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/via Reuters)
Trump administration

Trump administration says man deported to El Salvador 'in error'

Move violates U.S. court ruling; deportee denies being MS-13 gang member

1 April 2025
Family members of Venezuelans who are held in a high-security prison in El Salvador after being deported from the U.S. protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 24.
Trump administration

Judge blocks Trump administration from fast-tracking deportations

Justice department appeals, calling the district judge an 'unelected activist'

29 March 2025
Yutaka Ofuku, left, who heads a machine parts maker in Osaka, oversees the work of his chosen successor, Vietnamese factory manager Bui Quoc Viet. (Photo by Arisa Moriyama)
Japan immigration

Japan's growing foreign workforce offers succession lifeline

Immigrants may make up 10% of population by 2040s, forecast shows

26 March 2025
Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua deported by the U.S. government to a prison. 
Politics

Trump's use of wartime law against migrants alarms Japanese Americans

Descendants warn of repeating history with provision last invoked in World War II

25 March 2025
People walk by a market in a neighborhood north of Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo in November. The area has become a major center for Chinese people living in the capital.
Chinese in Japan

'Just like in China' -- Chinatowns proliferate across Japan

From Tokyo, to its suburbs and beyond, 'economic zones' offer everything a resident needs

23 March 2025
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More Chinese seek residency and education in Japan

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21 March 2025
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2014. The judge publicly responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's calls for the impeachment of a federal judge.
19 March 2025
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16.
Trump administration

Trump deports hundreds of immigrants even as court blocks order

Targets alleged Venezuelan gang members via 18th century wartime enemy act

17 March 2025
The University of Tokyo's iconic Red Gate, pictured in December. The university, located in Bunkyo ward, has become a major aspiration for Chinese students coming to Japan. (Photo taken in Dec. 2024)
Chinese in Japan

Chain of Chinese 'migration for education' thrives in Japan

Parents buy real estate near prestigious schools, including University of Tokyo, to secure opportunities

16 March 2025
Unskilled migrants in South Korea often work in the agricultural sector.
Immigration

Uzbeks flock to South Korea even as economy weakens

Hard-to-enter East Asian country provides better pay, more opportunities than Russia

16 March 2025
Japanese companies in fields such as manufacturing are relying more heavily on foreign workers amid a labor shortage. (Photo by Rie Ishii)
15 March 2025
An April rule change will lower the hurdles for non-Japanese health workers to provide in-home nursing care. (Photo by Nikkei)
Japan immigration

Japan to let more foreigners provide in-home nursing care

Specified skilled workers, technical trainees to receive the green light in April

14 March 2025
Chinese students near Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo: A growing number of Chinese nationals are seeking long-term settlement in Japan by using education as a pathway to residency.
9 March 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump believes his new gold card immigration scheme could attract oligarchs: "I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people," he said. 
Trump administration

Trump floats $5m 'gold card' as a route to U.S. citizenship

President says EB-5 immigrant investor visa program will be replaced

26 February 2025
The Seoul city government hopes foreign workers can be an alternative solution to future manpower shortages in the care sector.
Immigration

South Korea extends Philippine nannies program to provide cheaper childcare

Seoul aims to ease household burdens, though critics say program is not a lasting solution

17 February 2025
People hoping to travel to Thailand crowded around the Thai Embassy in Yangon in February 2024. (Photo by Nikkei)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar clamps down on young men going abroad for work

Move follows rush of migration by citizens seeking to avoid military service

11 February 2025
Beijing Capital International Airport: China has announced visa-free entry for visitors from Japan and several European countries.
7 February 2025
Parliament adjourned as the opposition chanted slogans and demanded a discussion about deportation flights.
Trump administration

Opposition protests alleged U.S. mistreatment of Indian deportees

Handcuffs and leg chains were only taken off at the airport in India, one says

7 February 2025
Less than three weeks into his second term in office, U.S. President Donald Trump has already begun what he pledged would be "the largest deportation program in American history." (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)
Policy Asia

Asian immigrants in U.S. cower in shadow of Trump deportation drive

An estimated 1.7m Asians lived in U.S. without authorization in 2022, up a third from 2016

7 February 2025
Students at Indonesia's Darma Persada University in Jakarta attend a class sponsored by Japan's Alpico Holdings. (Photo courtesy of Alpico Holdings)
Business trends

Japan Inc. ramps up recruitment drive at Asian campuses

Companies sponsor classes in bid to lure talent and beat regional rivals

2 February 2025
A foreign trainee works at a metal processing factory in Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. (Photo by Rie Ishii)
Immigration

Japan to ease financial burden of foreign trainees with new program

Plan will cap fees paid by workers to overseas recruiting agencies

23 January 2025
Graduation day at Monash University in Melbourne on Dec. 13: Policy tumult regarding student visas has disrupted preparations for the next school year. (Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
Big in Asia

Student visa clampdown knocks Australian universities off balance

Financially overstretched, schools struggle to adjust to reduced Asian inflows

18 January 2025