The Nagoya Excessive Court docket dominated Thursday that the federal government is just not obligated to acknowledge a Syrian man as a refugee after the collapse of the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad in 2024.

The court docket overturned a decrease court docket resolution that obliged the federal government to acknowledge him as a refugee. However the excessive court docket upheld a decrease court docket ruling that ordered the federal government to revoke a choice to not grant him refugee standing.

The person arrived in Japan in 2019 and lives within the central prefecture of Aichi after avoiding navy service and taking part in an anti-government motion in Syria.