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And what options would that be?
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Is it really easier to get fake passports, documents, and pretend that you're Japanese than it is to just legally move there?
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I`ll answer these two quotes together.
In the case of the Philippines, it is indeed easier to take a legal route into the country. There are tons of legal immigrants from the Philippines in Japan. It isn`t a country that requires a flee-by-night approach. Visas are issued on a regular basis.
It may be quicker to go the fake route - you don`t have to wait for anything official to clear, obviously... But it isn`t as if the option to go through a legal route was unavailable to them.
If they had escaped to Japan from North Korea or the like, I am sure I would feel quite a bit differently about their case. But to forgive and forget in their case is basically saying "Hey, don`t even bother with the official routes. If you pop a kid out here we`ll forgive you and give you residency!"
I`m sure that in the beginning they weren`t thinking all that long term about these things, but at any time along the way they could have contacted an anonymous immigration center (they exist for things like this - Japan is actually surprisingly kind to illegal immigrants who want to stop being illegal...) to attempt to avoid hurting their daughter.