Following a further refusal to grant status at the “objection procedure” stage an applicant can apply for judicial review at the District Court. Whilst it is possible to apply for judicial review after the first non-recognition, most applicants await the outcome of the objection procedure (ACLL 1962, as amended, Articles 8-35). The number of such cases has risen rapidly in the last five years largely as a result of the work of members of the Japan Lawyers’ Network for Refugees and other pro-bono lawyers working with refugees. Cases must be submitted within three months of the second refusal. It is these cases which have raised the profile of refugee issues significantly in recent years and highlighted some of the apparent difficulties which Japan has with asylum and refugee issues and in particular applying international law.38 The ACLL “objection procedure” form of judicial review does not allow for a full review of the facts of a case nor all the legal issues. In addition the court only examines the legality of the MoJ decision at the time it was made and does not consider subsequent events. Accordingly, since the judicial review process may take a number of years, if applicants wish to have subsequent events taken into account they will need to make a fresh asylum application.