
Society
EU Tightens Deportations as Japan Stews Over Foreign Crime and Lenient Authorities
The European Parliament passed rules to tighten deportation of undocumented migrants (418-218-30), with MEPs chanting 'Send them back.' Japanese netizens overwhelmingly said 'Japan should follow,' while domestic cases—a Chinese smuggling arrest, a dropped Angolan-national sexual-assault prosecution, and Ibaraki police removing 'foreign national' labels—stoked anger at foreign crime and the authorities.