FOCUS: Foreign iterant workers living on the edge

Vanessa Viela, 34, a fourth-generation Japanese Peruvian, looks back her life in Japan while watching pictures of her family on Nov. 17, 2015, in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Since arriving in Japan as a junior high school student in 1996, Viela has often dreamed of landing a better-paying job, but has struggled because she is unable to communicate well in Japanese. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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