Parents of 13-yr-old set to leave Japan

Tsuruneru · (#1 (**permalink**))

I've just seen this on TV and it seems really sad. An undocumented Filipino couple who have been under a deportation order arrived at Narita airport Monday afternoon to leave Japan and return to the Philippines, leaving behind their 13-year-old Japan-born-and-raised daughter who was recently granted special permission to stay for one year. For more about it you can go to the website i found it on. Parents of 13-yr-old Filipino girl set to leave Japan on extradition+

Ronin4hire · (#2 (**permalink**))

I hate this sort of thing.

On the one hand I sympathise with the family.

On the other hand... laws need to be enforced.

kMal · (#3 (**permalink**))

I agree. It is really painful to see, absolutely. I understand them completely, as my parents do not have Dutch citizenship and have to extend their Turkish "green cards" every 3 years or so. And if the Dutch government refuses, they could be forced to leave the Netherlands. Anyhow, laws have to be enforced and like most Turkish teachers say: priviledge one, and you'll be forced to priviledge more!

tifa · (#4 (**permalink**))

wasteful this is not bbc

Nyororin · (#5 (**permalink**))

They came into the country illegally, using fake documents... And are now trying to use their daughter as a free get out of jail card.
I have no sympathy for them.

For the daughter - on one hand yes, the other no. Listening to her interviews, she plays the part perfectly.

If this had been a case of simply overstaying a visa it would be one thing - perhaps an attempt to escape unhappy lives, etc. But the effort and amount of money it takes to get a fake passport, visa, etc shows that this was their intent. No laws should be bent for them.

Sangetsu · (#6 (**permalink**))

I hate it when people use the term "undocumented" instead of the correct term, which is "illegal". The parents in this case committed a crime, several, in fact, and now they are paying the consequences.

It's a shame that the daughter has to suffer, but it is her parents who are to blame, and no one else. Her parents knowingly broke the law when they came to Japan. They gave birth to their daughter while in full knowledge that they were living and working in the country illegally. They knew very well what would happen if they were ever caught, and that it was likely that one day they would be.

Tsuruneru · (#7 (**permalink**))

When i saw the video news cameras showed the girl crying while here parents were in line to get on the next plain out of japan. The mom can only speak japanese that will be really hard for her.

Nyororin · (#8 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Tsuruneru

When i saw the video news cameras showed the girl crying while here parents were in line to get on the next plain out of japan. The mom can only speak japanese that will be really hard for her.

I don`t know where you heard that the mother can only speak Japanese, but in every interview I have seen where she spoke - her Japanese was actually really poor... And she would divert the talking over to her husband. It was my impression that her Japanese was not all that good at all, and definitely not her only language.

The little girl though, yes, I believe she only speaks Japanese.

However, you can`t make exceptions (any more than have already been made). The parents came into Japan illegally - and it was not an accident. They obtain fake passports (or was it used someone else`s stolen passport? I forget) to enter the country. Posing falsely as Japanese citizens.
If they had simply overstayed their visas, the possibility of granting them residency was there. But that isn`t the case. They made the choice, and likely would have continued on in hiding, falsifying their identities, etc.

Depressing for the little girl, but they have made the exception of allowing her to stay in Japan, even though she has no legal right to it. Forgiving guilty parents because a child is innocent? Not something I can support.

MMM · (#9 (**permalink**))

YouTube - GoroGoroNeco's Channel

This is a collection of news reports from Youtube.

I talked to my friend in Japan about it and he said the media seems to be focusing on the poor little girl and less on the criminal activities of her parents.

Nyororin · (#10 (**permalink**))

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I talked to my friend in Japan about it and he said the media seems to be focusing on the poor little girl and less on the criminal activities of her parents.

Mass media is mass media. They`ll focus on what gets them viewers, and what could be more appealing than a poor 13 year old crying because her parents are sent away?

Newspapers, magazines, 週刊誌 etc - not quite as kind. There are more than enough people out there who are very unsatisfied with the level of "exceptions to the rule" being made for this family, even if the parents are being deported.
I`ve noticed quite a bit of surprise if I express my disappointment in the lightness of the government choices (I think they should have been charged in a criminal light, and banned entry to Japan for life like everyone else who does the same crap without having a kid to look cute on TV for their sake...)
I guess people expect me to want to defend them, being as they`re not Japanese. *sigh*