TOKYO -- As millions flee Russian bombing in Ukraine, Japan has pledged to take in some of them to help ease the brewing humanitarian crisis, a test for the country's refugee policy that admits just 1% of asylum-seekers.
"We will first accept those with family and friends in Japan, but we will engage in a further response from a humanitarian standpoint as well," Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters last week. He relayed his stance to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland, which has received the bulk of Ukrainian refugees so far.
