Although it is the second largest donor to the UN refugee agency after the US,in 2014 Japan accepted just 11 asylum seekers out of 5000 applicantsJapan has no immediate plans to accept refugees from Syria, despite earlier pledging financial and political support for the military campaign against Islamic State.
As the EU, or with Lebanon,Jordan and other countries, struggled to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people fleeing fighting in Syria and Iraq, or governments thousands of kilometres absent also pledged to bewitch additional refugees.
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Source: theguardian.com