Japan
Japan
The IPC Refugee Paralympic Team at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony. This is the first official Refugee Paralympic Team.
Two of the refugee athletes participated in the Rio 2016 Paralympics as the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team.
Japan is one of the largest donor States, supporting refugees, other displaced and stateless populations and their host communities through State and private-sector funding.
Since 2019, the Government of Japan has made a number of pledges, including in support of specific refugee situations, protection for women and girls, and leveraging the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus. In 2023, Japan was one of the co-convenors of the second Global Refugee Forum and a co-lead of the HDP Nexus Multi-stakeholder Pledge. Various stakeholders in Japan ranging from the Government of Japan, private sector and civil society to education institutions have made over 40 pledges contributing to the four objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees. In Japan, UNHCR and Ministry of Foreign Affairs set up a GRF network with a first meeting held in September 2024.
