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Filipino-Japanese visits father's homeland

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Bienvenido Toshio Shin, a 70-year-old Filipino-Japanese, receives a bouquet of flowers from his Japanese relatives on Aug. 7, 2014, at Kagoshima Airport in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, his Japanese father's homeland. Shin, who acquired Japanese nationality earlier this year, said, "My 70-year dream finally came true."

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Filipino-Japanese visits father's homeland

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Bienvenido Toshio Shin, a 70-year-old Filipino-Japanese, meets his Japanese relatives on Aug. 7, 2014, at Kagoshima Airport in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, his Japanese father's homeland. Shin, who acquired Japanese nationality earlier this year, said, "My 70-year dream finally came true."

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Filipino-Japanese appeal for Japanese citizenship

MANILA, Philippines - Descendants of Japanese living in the Philippines attend a press conference in Manila on Aug. 4, 2014, before visiting Japan to appeal for official recognition as Japanese citizens. The man with the microphone is Bienvenido Shin, whose petition was approved last March and who plans to join the trip to meet his relatives in Japan.

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Half-Japanese Filipina meets Japanese kin

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - Tsuyoshi Miyazato from Okinawa, Japan, and his Filipino-Japanese aunt, Conchita Miyazato Basilan, shake hands after their first meeting at Davao airport on Mindanao Island, the Philippines, on May 16, 2014. Basilan is the daughter of a Japanese national who came to the Philippines in 1929 and engaged in abaca farming.

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9 Philippine "Nikkei-jin" hope to acquire Japanese citizenship

MANILA, Philippines - Second-generation Filipino-Japanese Rogelio Kimura, 69, holds photos of his Japanese father, Kiichiro Kimura, during a press conference on Aug. 6, 2013, in Manila. Kimura joins eight other Japanese descendants in a five-day trip to Japan starting on Aug. 7 to appear before a Tokyo Family Court for their petition to get Japanese citizenship.

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7 Filipino Japanese come to Tokyo to file for registry as Japanese

NARITA, Japan - Seven Filipino Japanese who were born under Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers around the World War II arrive at Narita airport on Oct. 11 to file for a registry as Japanese at the Tokyo Family Court. The seven were left in the Philippines after their fathers were deported following the end of the war.

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7 Filipino Japanese come to Tokyo to file for registry as Japanese

NARITA, Japan - Seven Filipino Japanese who were born under Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers around the World War II speak at a press conference on arrival at Narita airport on Oct. 11 to file for a registry as Japanese at the Tokyo Family Court.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits off the 15th tee during the third round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 20, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits an approach shot on the fourth hole during the third round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 20, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits off the 14th tee during the third round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 20, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits an approach shot on the third hole during the third round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 20, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits an approach shot on the first hole during the second round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 19, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits a shot during the second round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 19, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits out of a bunker on the fourth hole during the second round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 19, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso acknowledges applause after making an eagle on the 17th hole during the first round of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 18, 2021.

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Golf: CME Group Tour Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits a shot during the first round of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 18, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso acknowledges the crowd after making a birdie on the 12th hole during the final round of the Pelican Women's Championship at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 14, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits an approach shot on the 14th hole during the final round of the Pelican Women's Championship at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 14, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso plays during the final round of the Pelican Women's Championship at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 14, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits out of a bunker on the third hole during the second round of the Pelican Women's Championship golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 12, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits off the 5th tee during the second round of the Pelican Women's Championship golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 12, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso makes a birdie putt on the seventh hole during the second round of the Pelican Women's Championship golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 12, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits off the 15th tee during the first round of the Pelican Women's Championship golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 11, 2021.

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Golf: Pelican Women's Championship

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits a shot on the 16th hole during the first round of the Pelican Women's Championship golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 11, 2021.

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Golf: Cognizant Founders Cup

Filipino-Japanese player Yuka Saso hits off the sixth tee during the final round of the Cognizant Founders Cup golf tournament at Mountain Ridge Country Club in West Caldwell, New Jersey, on Oct. 10, 2021.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Nasa Hataoka of Japan (R) and Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso are pictured during the first round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Oct. 1, 2021, on Seaview Golf Club's Bay Course in Galloway, New Jersey.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits off the 14th tee during the first round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Oct. 1, 2021, on Seaview Golf Club's Bay Course in Galloway, New Jersey.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso plays a shot on the 13th hole during the first round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Oct. 1, 2021, on Seaview Golf Club's Bay Course in Galloway, New Jersey.

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Golf: NW Arkansas Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits off the ninth tee during the second round of the LPGA's NW Arkansas Championship at the Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Arkansas, on Sept. 25, 2021.

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Golf: NW Arkansas Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso putts on the ninth hole during the second round of the LPGA's NW Arkansas Championship at the Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Arkansas, on Sept. 25, 2021.

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Golf: NW Arkansas Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits off the 16th tee during the first round of the LPGA's NW Arkansas Championship at the Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Arkansas, on Sept. 24, 2021.

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Golf: Marathon Classic

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits off the first tee during the first round of the Marathon Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, on July 8, 2021.

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Golf: Marathon Classic

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits a shot on the first hole during the first round of the Marathon Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, on July 8, 2021.

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Filipino-Japanese hopes to find links to father in Japan

Cherry Rafols, 75, from Palawan province in the western Philippines, shows a photo of her Japanese father, Hideo Togo, from Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, on March 25, 2015 in Manila. Togo died in the Philippines due to illness when Rafols was still 5 months old, and she embarked the same day on a weeklong trip to Japan to visit her father's grave and meet her Japanese relatives for the first time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filipino, Japanese youth urged to remember infamous Death March

Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2017, shows a boxcar that was used during the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March, displayed at the Capas National Shrine in Tarlac Province, north of Manila. Some 50 to 60 Filipino and American prisoners of war who had survived the march were crammed into box cars such as this measuring about six feet long, eight feet wide, and six feet high, to be transported to prison camps in Capas during World War II. In the suffocating heat, many died en route.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filipino, Japanese youth urged to remember infamous Death March

Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2017 shows the Philippine flag on the left and a 73-meter obelisk on the right that stands as the focal feature of the Capas National Shrine in Tarlac Province, north of Manila, Philippines, and symbolizes peace. The shrine is on the site of Capas Concentration Camp, where Filipino and American prisoners of war who survived the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March were incarcerated by the Imperial Japanese Imperial during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filipino, Japanese youth urged to remember infamous Death March

Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2017, shows a boxcar that was used during the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March, displayed at the Capas National Shrine in Tarlac Province, north of Manila. Some 50 to 60 Filipino and American prisoners of war who had survived the march were crammed into box cars such as this measuring about six feet long, eight feet wide, and six feet high, to be transported to prison camps in Capas during World War II. In the suffocating heat, many died en route. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging Filipino-Japanese still hoping to secure Japanese citizenship

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

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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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7 Filipino Japanese come to Tokyo to file for registry as Japane

NARITA, Japan - Seven Filipino Japanese who were born under Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers around the World War II arrive at Narita airport on Oct. 11 to file for a registry as Japanese at the Tokyo Family Court. The seven were left in the Philippines after their fathers were deported following the end of the war. (Kyodo)

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7 Filipino Japanese come to Tokyo to file for registry as Japane

NARITA, Japan - Seven Filipino Japanese who were born under Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers around the World War II speak at a press conference on arrival at Narita airport on Oct. 11 to file for a registry as Japanese at the Tokyo Family Court. (Kyodo)

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits off the first tee during the second round of the Women's PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 25, 2021.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits off the 18th tee during the second round of the Women's PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 25, 2021, with playing partner Lexi Thompson of the United States looking on.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso smiles during a practice round at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 23, 2021, a day before the start of the Women's PGA Championship. Saso won the U.S. Women's Open earlier in the month.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso smiles during a pro-am round at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 22, 2021, two days before the start of the Women's PGA Championship.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso practices at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 22, 2021, two days before the start of the Women's PGA Championship. Saso won the 2021 U.S. Women's Open in San Francisco, California, on June 6.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso practices at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 22, 2021, two days before the start of the Women's PGA Championship. Saso won the 2021 U.S. Women's Open in San Francisco, California, on June 6.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits a tee shot during the final round of the Women's PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 27, 2021.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso hits a shot on the 15th hole during the final round of the Women's PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 27, 2021.

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Golf: Women's PGA Championship

Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso reacts to applause on the 18th hole during the final round of the Women's PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on June 27, 2021.