Boku wa Nihonjin!

Author: Ichiro
Posted in Japan, News, Philippines April 14th, 2009
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A Filipino couple was deported from Japan on Monday (April 13, 2009) due to illegal immigration, Their daughter, Noriko, was left behind in Japan to continue studying in the local school.

Parents of Noriko, Arlan Cruz Calderon, 36, and his wife, Sarah, 38, left Tokyo’s Narita airport bound to Philippines, seen off by their daughter, Noriko, and a crowd of reporters, said public broadcaster NHK.

Her parents were forced to leave because they used illegal passports to enter Japan during the 1990’s. The couple stayed in the country undetected until her mother was arrested two years ago.

Noriko was born in 1995, she only speaks Japanese and attends the local school. “I have a dream. To make it come true, I need my parents here and I want the three of us to live together,” said Noriko. “I won’t have delicious food made by my mother any more. I feel full of uncertainty,” she said (just what kind of food does her mother prepare? Filipino food perhaps?). She have always thought that she was a real Japanese until her mother got arrested where then she knew the situation they were in. Despite her parents case, she is allowed to stay in humanitarian grounds but with the condition that her parents must leave the country voluntarily or else the three of them would be deported.

The family’s lawyer, Shogo Watanabe said it was an agonizing decision for the parents because “they had to avoid the possible detention of the daughter no matter what.”

Justice Minister Eisuke Mori, in charge of immigration matters, told reporters that the government had done its utmost to help the family. “I am responsible for protecting Japan’s public safety and social order,” he said. “Despite my sympathetic feelings, I had to consider many elements. I have dealt with the case with ample consideration.”

The case has drawn intense media coverage in Japan, and more than 20,000 people signed a petition asking the government to allow all three to stay.

The case has also attracted the attention of Amnesty International as well as the UN Human Rights Council, which has asked Japan for information about it.

Via Inquirer and ABS-CBN

TNT, which stand for “tago ng tago”, literally means “hinding and hiding”, are Filipinos who use illegal passports or uses legal passports but over-stays to find jobs or to hide from outstanding debts left in the philippines. It is a Fact that there are still many TNTs around the world undetected (they might be the real ninjas and spies) and are having a good life staying in that country.

http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090413-199129

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20090210-188534/The-dilemma-of-13-year-old-Noriko

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/03/13/09/filipino-couple-leaves-daughter-japan-immigration-row


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