British government advisor Dr Miwa Hirono will take up a new position in Kyoto after her application to remain in the UK was refused last year, The Telegraph reported on 20 March.
To work on foreign policy, the academic spent 472 days abroad in 2009 and 2010, thereby breeching UK immigration law that states people on a migrant visa who are working should not be out of the country more than 180 days a year.
Philip Cowley, professor of parliamentary government at The University of Nottingham, said it was pure madness for the government to be driving out an expert.