Japan's immigration agency admitted its Nagoya center never passed on a dying detainee's pleas for a drip or a hospital, then told a court it can't say what staff should have done.
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The Immigration Services Agency's own investigation report of 10 August 2021, on the March 2021 death of a woman held at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau, found that guards did not report her repeated late-February requests for an IV drip or outside medical care to superiors, that no further internal-medicine tests followed a 15 February urine test showing abnormal ketone and protein levels, and that its internist was a part-time doctor working two two-hour sessions a week. It said many guards suspected she was exaggerating to win provisional release and that the bureau had not built a system for its leadership to track detainees' health, calling it a point 'requiring organisational improvement'. In the family's damages suit, which closed on 22 July 2026 with judgment set for 11 December 2026, the state argued that the cause of death is unclear and that specific measures staff should have taken cannot be identified.
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