{"id":74494,"date":"2025-09-29T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/kurdish-migrants-japan-kurds-immigration"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:43:37","slug":"my-kids-are-too-scared-to-go-outside-kurdish-migrants-face-hostility-as-japan-wrestles-with-demographic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74494","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My kids are too scared to go outside\u2019: Kurdish migrants face hostility as Japan wrestles with demographic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antagonism toward migrant communities visible in the UK, Europe and the US appears to be spreading to Japan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would rather die than go back to Turkey,\u201d says Ali*. \u201cBut life is also getting worse here. I can see that our Japanese neighbours are much cooler towards us these days. Some refuse even to greet us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade after he arrived in Japan with his wife and their two eldest children, Ali is fighting a battle on two fronts \u2013 a decision on his application for refugee status, and rising hostility towards his family and other members of the country\u2019s Kurdish community.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/kurdish-migrants-japan-kurds-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antagonism toward migrant communities visible in the UK, Europe and the US appears to be spreading to Japan\u201cI would rather die than go back to Turkey,\u201d says Ali*. \u201cBut life is also getting worse here. I can see that our Japanese neighbours are much coo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-migration"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74494\/revisions\/74495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}