Ksenya Semenova writes on OpenDemocracy.net about the reactions of Sakhalin residents to the situation in Japan I have some friends in Japan .

Within Japan, there is growing controversy over the Hatoyama government s push for a law that would allow particular foreign residents on the island to vote in local elections.

At the time of the Boxer Rebellion, Japan fully understood that to contribute to the world for the emergency protection of foreign residents was a matter of national importance.

Fearing long term health effects of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, some residents in mainland Japan have made the decision to uproot their families and move to other prefectures or countries.

Residents of Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus, Syria.

Residents from the Ukraine are the largest group (118,000), followed by residents of Slovakia (84,000).

Status of habitual residents

Residents don t pay taxes.

Demographics The city's population grew by 4 (96,073 residents) between 1996 and 2001, 1 (21,787 residents) between 2001 and 2006, and 4.3 (111,779 residents) between 2006 and 2011.

The percentage of residents born in Florida was 14.9 , the percentage of people born in another U.S. state was 29.1 , and the percentage of native residents but born outside the U.S. was 4.7 , while the percentage of foreign born residents was 51.3 .

Those who refuse could remain in Israel as permanent residents.

Over 75 of the district residents live in public housing.

One in every four California residents was born in a foreign country.

Moreover (and again counter to the guidelines), CFMs, almost by definition, require some discrimination between residents and non residents.

Opposition from local residents remains stiff.

After all, we live in a global system in which different countries use different currencies, which implies that residents and non residents have asymmetric demands for assets issued in those currencies.

More than 44 of developing country residents already live in cities.

Residents of liberated Aleppo demonstrated in support of the counter offensive.

Over 85 of the district's residents live in public built housing.

The district has the least educated residents with the lowest income, the oldest residents and the second highest population density.

However, some unresolved issues, namely land, which causes conflict even among residents, could fuel additional problems between returnees and residents.

During the twentieth century, the nation recorded its highest percentage of foreign born residents in 1910 14.7 of the population. Today, 11.7 of US residents are foreign born.

Most of its residents make their living hunting in the local forest.

There are more than 22,000 residents in 38 settlements as of 2007.

In this genocide, 613 peaceful residents were murdered and 1,275 taken hostage.

Local residents reported that three houses in Shab'a village had been hit.

Residents of fancy neighbourhoods and slum dwellers

Gaza residents clean after an Israeli bombing.

While summers are torrid and winter can be unpleasant due to the lack of central heating in most of the country, spring and fall provide residents with a brief respite from the climatic extremes that Japan experiences the rest of the year.

In fact, many cities have distinctive identities of which their residents are proud.

The residents worked in the orchards and sold their yield at the cities.

The least populous county is Loving County, Texas, with 71 residents in 2012.

Today, 11.7 of US residents are foreign born.

Fishing is an important activity among local residents.

Local Lebanese residents claimed a house was hit.

Arkania and G. Sichinava, residents of the region.

Japan in Action

Autumn in Japan.

Filipino activists protest the alleged human rights abuses suffered by Filipino residents in Sabah.

In most regions, pastures are State owned, and rural residents use them for free.

Many of its residents have lived in camps for internally displaced persons since 1992.

The war in Mindanao in the Philippines has forced thousands of residents to flee their homes.

The number of residents in the city increased more than twelve times in the last century.

The residents of the Gaza Strip drink polluted water.

Hong Kong's residents used to be branded as apolitical.