Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan)
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The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act is Japan’s primary law governing the entry, stay, deportation, and refugee recognition of foreign nationals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan) canonical | 2 |
| Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act of Japan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5950466 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan) Context triple: [Immigration Services Agency of Japan, legalBasis, Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan)]
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A.
Refugee Act of 1980
The Refugee Act of 1980 is a landmark U.S. law that created a permanent, standardized system for admitting and resettling refugees in accordance with international humanitarian principles.
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B.
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 is a UK law that overhauled immigration, border control, and citizenship provisions, strengthening the powers and duties of the UK Border Agency and reforming the path to British citizenship.
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C.
Immigration Act 2014
The Immigration Act 2014 is a UK law that tightened immigration controls by restricting access to services like housing, banking, and healthcare for people without lawful status and expanding powers to remove and deport migrants.
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D.
Immigration Act 2016
The Immigration Act 2016 is a UK law that overhauled immigration enforcement and labour market regulation, including expanding powers to tackle illegal working and labour exploitation.
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E.
Administrative Procedure Act of Japan
The Administrative Procedure Act of Japan is a fundamental law that standardizes and ensures fairness, transparency, and due process in administrative actions and decision-making by Japanese government agencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan) Target entity description: The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act is Japan’s primary law governing the entry, stay, deportation, and refugee recognition of foreign nationals.
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A.
Refugee Act of 1980
The Refugee Act of 1980 is a landmark U.S. law that created a permanent, standardized system for admitting and resettling refugees in accordance with international humanitarian principles.
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B.
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 is a UK law that overhauled immigration, border control, and citizenship provisions, strengthening the powers and duties of the UK Border Agency and reforming the path to British citizenship.
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C.
Immigration Act 2014
The Immigration Act 2014 is a UK law that tightened immigration controls by restricting access to services like housing, banking, and healthcare for people without lawful status and expanding powers to remove and deport migrants.
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D.
Immigration Act 2016
The Immigration Act 2016 is a UK law that overhauled immigration enforcement and labour market regulation, including expanding powers to tackle illegal working and labour exploitation.
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E.
Administrative Procedure Act of Japan
The Administrative Procedure Act of Japan is a fundamental law that standardizes and ensures fairness, transparency, and due process in administrative actions and decision-making by Japanese government agencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese statute
ⓘ
refugee law ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Immigration Services Agency of Japan
ⓘ
Ministry of Justice (Japan) ⓘ
linked to:
Ministry of Justice of Japan
|
| appliesTo | foreign nationals ⓘ |
| contains |
penal provisions for immigration violations
ⓘ
provisions on re-entry permits ⓘ provisions on work authorization for foreign nationals ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| defines |
grounds for deportation
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procedures for deportation ⓘ procedures for refugee recognition ⓘ provisions on detention of foreign nationals ⓘ provisions on special permission to stay ⓘ requirements for landing permission ⓘ status of residence categories in Japan ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
immigration control officers
ⓘ
immigration inspectors ⓘ |
| governs |
deportation of foreign nationals from Japan
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entry of foreign nationals into Japan ⓘ refugee recognition procedures in Japan ⓘ stay of foreign nationals in Japan ⓘ |
| hasSection |
penal provisions
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provisions on deportation procedures ⓘ provisions on extension of period of stay ⓘ provisions on landing examination ⓘ provisions on recognition of refugees ⓘ provisions on residence status change ⓘ |
| legalDomain |
immigration control
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refugee recognition ⓘ |
| legalEffect |
provides legal basis for removal of undocumented migrants
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provides legal framework for granting refugee status ⓘ regulates rights and obligations of foreign nationals in Japan ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| purpose |
to control the entry and residence of foreign nationals
ⓘ
to maintain public order and security related to immigration ⓘ to provide procedures for recognition of refugees ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
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Refugee Convention ⓘ |
| scope |
entry and exit control at Japanese borders
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refugee status determination ⓘ residence management of foreign nationals ⓘ |
| shortName | Immigration Control Act ⓘ |
| subjectTo | amendment by the National Diet of Japan ⓘ |
| targetGroup |
asylum seekers in Japan
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international students in Japan ⓘ migrant workers in Japan ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan) Description of subject: The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act is Japan’s primary law governing the entry, stay, deportation, and refugee recognition of foreign nationals.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Immigration Services Agency of Japan
→
legalBasis
→
Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan)
ⓘ
Immigration Services Agency of Japan
→
legalFramework
→
Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act of Japan
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subject linked to:
ISA
linked to: Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Japan)