Filipino girl starts new school year before parents' departure

WARABI, Japan - Noriko Calderon (front), a 13-year-old Filipino girl, is seen off by his father Arlan and mother Sarah as she leaves her home in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, on April 8 for a local junior high school. Arlan and Sarah Calderon, under a deportation order, are scheduled to leave Japan on April 13.

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