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Foreign travelers to Japan in 2009 declined for the first time in six years due in part to the global recession and the appreciation of the yen, the Japan National Tourism Organization announced.

Overseas tourists to Japan dropped by 1.56 million, or 18.7 percent, from the previous year to an estimated 6.79 million in 2009, the sharpest decline since records were first kept in 1964, according to the organization. This is mainly due to the worldwide economic slump triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the swine flu outbreak and the appreciation of the yen.

A little-known program of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provides information that bridges oceans.

A government genealogy service lets family history leap off the page – latimes.com

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Kanae Doi, a 34-year-old lawyer, has always wanted to be on the side of the weak. As a director of the Tokyo bureau of Human Rights Watch, a position she has held since 2008, she is trying to change Japanese politics to protect human rights.

Read more: HRW chief working to change diplomacy | The Japan Times Online.

Edwin Valero. Photo by C. Cazzone

After the current WBC lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero had been denied a work visa back in September, 2009, he finally fought away from the United States in Venezuela on Saturday, December 19.

Spanish-language magazine Boxeo Mundial recently reported that Valero believed his U.S. visa denial was related to his sympathy with President Hugo Chávez, a fierce critic of U.S. government. Valero has an image of Chávez tattooed on his chest along with a Venezuelan flag (see photo). Other reports dispute this, pointing to Valero’s driving-under-the-influence of alcohol (DUI) charge in the United States earlier this year.

IMMIGRATION to the UNITED STATES

The idea of immigration is not that static as it is considered to be. There are lots of variations persists as per the domain of culture and political influences. Read More