Aging Filipino-Japanese still hoping to secure Japanese citizenship

Aging Filipino-Japanese still hoping to secure Japanese citizenship

Filipino-Japanese siblings Roque Go, 80, Pacita Torres, 84, and Estodi Go, 77, from the southern Philippine province of Davao Occidental on Mindanao island, attend an interview on May 24, 2016, in Davao City conducted by the Philippine Nikkei-jin Legal Support Center, Nippon Foundation, and the Japanese Embassy in Manila in preparation for an appeal of an earlier decision by a Japanese court dismissing their petition to be recognized as Japanese nationals. The siblings were among five children of a Japanese national they identify from memory as "Mashimura Maramoto," who, they claim, arrived in Davao before World War II and got married to a local tribal woman but failed to register his family with the Japanese government. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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    Aging Filipino-Japanese still hoping to secure Japanese citizenship

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    Estodi Go, 77, a Filipino-Japanese from the southern Philippine province of Davao Occidental on Mindanao island, shows on May 24, 2016, a photo of his Japanese father, Filipino mother and three older siblings taken in 1936, as he and his two older siblings appeal for official recognition as Japanese citizens. They are among 10 petitioners who will appeal earlier decisions by Japanese courts to deny them citizenship. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo