On the other hand, Japan practices a policy that officially welcomes refugees.
Why accept other refugees when the government is not capable of responding,
or even not willing to respond appropriately to existing refugee status requests
already in the country? In answer to this, Tanaka points out that it may be
easier for government to handle and recognize group of refugees who come as
already recognised refugees rather than trying to handle individual refugee applications
from those who are already resident in Japan, a troublesome process
in comparison.