Japan boosts support for war refugees from Syria, Iraq

[WorldNews]

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By Louis Charbonneau and David Brunnstrom UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister said on Tuesday that his country would provide some $1.6 billion to assist Syrians and Iraqis displaced by conflict and for building peace across the Middle East and Africa. Shinzo Abe told the United Nations General Assembly that Japan would boost its assistance for refugees and internally displaced people from Syria and Iraq this year to about $810 million, three times the amount provided last year. Asked at a New York news conference whether Japan would accept Syrian refugees, Abe replied with the government's general response that the country needs to boost its own workforce with such steps as empowering more women and older people to work.

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