Topic: Visas
Visas
has 56.4% among topics.
BS Score: 3.8%.
Articles analyzed: 4.
Words analyzed: 2,848.
Analyzed articles
The Japan Times
- By Elizabeth Beattie
- 6/8/2026, 1:40 AM
Negativity Bias 64% - In-Group Bias 24.7% - Hasty Generalization 24.7%
Tighter immigration regulations — from stricter business manager visa criteria to hikes in fees — risk damaging Japan’s international image and stoking xenophobia, an opposition lawmaker critical of the revisions introduced in recent months said Monday. “This is having a huge impact on small business and small business operators who... more
Newsmax
- By Field Level Media
- 6/6/2026, 12:21 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 34.2% - Framing Effect 19.7% - Optimism Bias 13%
Players from Iran's World Cup team have been granted visas ‌to enter the United States, Reuters reported on Friday. A White House official confirmed the news to Reuters, offering that the players had received their visas overnight, shortly after Iranian ambassador to Mexico Abolfazl Pasandideh ‌had said they didn't have... more
The Japan Times
- By Himari Semans
- 6/5/2026, 1:00 AM
Negativity Bias 69% - Biased Writer Voice 69% - Hasty Generalization 61.2%
Brokers and other firms in the “immigration business” — many of them Chinese — have long been suspected of being behind some foreign nationals obtaining business manager visas through questionable means, which prompted the government to tighten restrictions on the visa’s criteria last October. The measures vary from establishing shell... more
The Japan Times
- By Himari Semans
- 5/29/2026, 6:31 AM
Hasty Generalization 15.8% - Appeal to Emotion 15.8% - Anchoring Bias 11.9%
Japan enacted a bill on Friday to raise visa-related fees for foreign nationals by up to 30 times the current levels. The increase will enable the government to use the additional revenue to help cover the administrative costs of managing the country’s growing foreign population. The bill, which cleared the Lower House in April, was... more
The Japan Times
- By Himari Semans
- 5/21/2026, 1:33 AM
Biased Writer Voice 78% - Negativity Bias 59% - Framing Effect 32%
A rejected visa application and a frantic, 30-day scramble to pack up and leave the country. That’s the harsh reality for scores of foreign business owners, some of whom have spent the majority of their lives in Japan, under stricter rules for the business manager visa. Japan has been cracking down on misuse of the business manager visa... more