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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Sri Lankan man dies during detention at Tokyo immigration bureau

TOKYO, Japan - A 26-year-old man, a relative of a 57-year-old Sri Lankan man who died after reporting chest pain during detention at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Nov. 22, 2014, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 1. The Provisional Release Association in Japan, a support group for foreigners, criticized the bureau for failing to conduct a medical check in response to his chest pain report, while the bureau defended its response as having had no problem.

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Student helping asylum seekers in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Maho Hadano, a graduate student at Nagoya University and the only full-time coordinator at the Nagoya-based support office for refugees, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 12, 2012 at the office in the city's Naka Ward. The Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Japan Association for Refugees and the Japan Lawyers Network for Refugees set up the Nagoya office in July 2012 to cope with a sharp increase in applications for asylum with the Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau.

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Lawyers visit Nepalese man at immigration office

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Lawyers Hiroshi Kamiyama (L) and Shozaburo Ishida meet the press after visiting Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese granted a retrial over a 1997 murder case, at the Yokohama Office of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on June 13, 2012. The lawyers visited Mainali as they wished to see him one more time before his pending repatriation. During their meeting, Kamiyama, who headed a group of lawyers for Mainali, exchanged a high-five with him through the acrylic sheet that separated them, while the Nepalese told Kamiyama, "Finally, I have something to tell you. Please get married soon," according to the lawyers.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her second daughter Alisha and eldest daughter Mithila are interviewed in Yokohama on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Alisha and Mithila's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali, at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) leave the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her daughters Mithila and Alisha visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Foreigners leaving Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign residents wait in line to obtain reentry permits in front of the Justice Ministry's Tokyo Immigration Bureau on March 17, 2011, before temporarily leaving the quake-hit country.

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Filipino parents decide to leave daughter behind in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Sarah Calderon (L) and her daughter Noriko arrive at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Tokyo's Minato Ward on March 13. Sarah told the immigration authorities that she and her husband Arlan have decided to leave their 13-year-old daughter behind in Japan and go back to the Philippines in April.

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

TOKYO, Japan - Noriko Calderon, 13, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on March 9. Her father Arlan Calderon, an undocumented Filipino man, was detained for illegal stay earlier in the day after showing up at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau.

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

WARABI, Japan - Arlan Calderon (front), an undocumented Filipino man, and his wife Sarah (in back) arrive at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Tokyo's Minato Ward on March 9. The immigration bureau detained Arlan for illegal stay and allowed Sarah and their daughter Noriko to stay in Japan for another week.

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

WARABI, Japan - Arlan Calderon (C), an undocumented Filipino man, and his wife Sarah (R) see their daughter Noriko (L) off at Noriko's junior high school in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, on March 9. Arlan was detained for illegal stay after showing up at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau later in the day and was told that all three in the family will be deported March 17 unless they make a decision on whether they will depart from the country or leave behind the 13-year-old girl in Japan. The bureau allowed Sarah and Noriko to stay in Japan for another week.

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

WARABI, Japan - Sarah Calderon (R), wife of Arlan Calderon, an undocumented Filipino man, bids farewell to her daughter Noriko at Noriko's junior high school in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, on March 9. Arlan Calderon was detained later at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau for illegal stay and was told that all three in the family will be deported March 17 unless they make a decision on whether they will depart from the country or leave behind the 13-year-old girl in Japan. The bureau allowed Sarah and Noriko to stay in Japan for another week.

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Filipino family told set departure date by March 9 or be deported

TOKYO, Japan - Arlan Calderon, 36, and his wife Sarah, 38, an undocumented Filipino couple living in Tokyo, head for the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau Feb. 27. The Justice Ministry told them to set a date to leave Japan by March 9 or face deportation. The family's case has drawn public sympathy partly because their daughter, who was born and raised in Japan, says she wants to continue studying at her junior high school in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture.

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Filipino family granted temporary stay

TOKYO, Japan - Arlan Calderon (L) and his wife Sarah from the Philippines answer questions from reporters in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Jan. 14 after the bureau told them that temporary permission for them and their 13-year-old Japan-born daughter Noriko to stay in Japan has been extended by a month to Feb. 13 beyond its Jan. 14 expiration. Arlan and Sarah illegally entered Japan in the 1990s and the family is under a deportation order.

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Special residency permit issued for Iranian family in Kofu

KOFU, Japan - An Iranian family of four -- Saeid Partow Helal (far right), his wife Mitra Keshavarz and their two daughters Anahita and Bita -- all look happy at a press conference after obtaining special residency permit from the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on May 11.

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Embattled Iranian family's stay in Japan extended for 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Nov. 10 gave permission for Amine Khalil (in photo) and his Iranian family to stay in Japan for another month on a temporary basis ahead of the government's decision on whether to issue them with a special residence permit.

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Embattled Iranian family's stay in Japan extended for 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - Iranian Amine Khalil (L) speaks in Tokyo on Nov. 10 before he was notified by the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau of the extension of temporary permission for his family of four to stay in Japan for another month.

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Family members of 2 deported Kurds given status to stay

TOKYO, Japan - Zeliha Kazankiran (2nd from R), a Kurd seeking asylum in Japan, answers reporters' questions Jan. 24 before entering the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau. The same day, the bureau renewed her monthly provisional status to stay in Japan along with that of four other members of her family. Her father, Ahmet Kazankiran, and brother, Ramazan, were deported Jan. 18.

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8 Bangladeshis turn themselves in for overstay

TOKYO, Japan - Eight Bangladeshi men who have overstayed their visas turn themselves in to immigration authorities Sept. 21 and request special permission to remain in Japan. One of the Bangladeshi men spoke at a meeting held by a voluntary group that helps illegal immigrants in Japan before they surrendered themselves at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau.

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Thai girl applies for permanent residency to stay in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida (L), a 13-year-old Thai orphan living in Japan with her grandmother (R), prepares to enter the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Aug. 9 to apply to change from short-term to permanent resident status.

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6,000 sign petition for Thai orphan fighting to settle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai orphan girl, speaks to reporters in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau building in Tokyo on July 5 after applying to the bureau for long-term resident status. She, along with her lawyer Satoshi Murata, also submitted a petition signed by over 6,000 people calling on the immigration authorities to grant long-term resident status.

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Thai girl fights immigration bureau, seeks to settle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a junior high school student in Tokyo living in Japan since February 2003, filed a suit June 29 seeking repeal of an immigration bureau's decision not to grant her permanent residence status.

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Falun Gong members seek refugee status amid deportation fears

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese members of Falun Gong, a sect outlawed in China, and their supporters appeal to Japanese immigration authorities not to detain them at a news conference in Tokyo on May 18. They made the appeal in the wake of moves by the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau starting this month to detain Falun Gong followers or instruct them to present themselves to bureau officials.

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Kurdish man, family fight deportation order in court

TOKYO, Japan - Zilan, 3-year-old daughter of Taskin, a Kurdish man, and his Filipiono wife Beltran, appears at a press conference in Tokyo on March 12 with lawyer Takeshi Ohhashi after Ohhashi, acting on behalf of the three, filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court seeking a reversal of the Justice Ministry's decision to deport them for overstaying their visas. Zilan is now living with Beltran's sister in Japan because her parents have been detained by the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau since January.

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Japan allows Myanmar activist, kin to stay

TOKYO, Japan - Maria Hope Jamili (2nd from L), her pro-democracy activist husband Khin Maung Latt (C) and their two daughters smile at a press conference in Tokyo on March 9 after they were granted special permission to stay in Japan. The Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau gave the special residence permit to the family after Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa said the government would allow them to stay for humanitarian reasons because the family would be broken up if deported.

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7 Afghan asylum seekers detained again

TOKYO, Japan - An Afghan man seeking refugee status waves to his supporters in front of the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Tokyo's Kita Ward on July 1. He was among seven Afghan asylum seekers who were taken into custody the same day by the immigration authorities in accordance with a decision by the Tokyo High Court in June that they had illegally entered Japan.

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Afghans to appeal immigration decision

TOKYO, Japan - Three Afghan men, accompanied by their lawyer (R), meet members of the media in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2001 after their applications for refugee status were turned down by the Japanese government's Immigration Bureau. The lawyer said the Afghans will appeal the decision.

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14 children of detained visa overstayers hold protest

TOKYO, Japan - Fourteen children, aged 2 to 18, stage on Aug. 28 a sit-in protest in front of the Justice Ministry in Tokyo calling for the release of their fathers who are detained by the immigration authorities for overstaying their visas. The children plan to continue their protest through Monday evening. Their fathers, from countries including Iran, Peru and Bangladesh, are being detained by the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau.

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Afghans to appeal immigration decision

TOKYO, Japan - Three Afghan men, accompanied by their lawyer (R), meet members of the media in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2001 after their applications for refugee status were turned down by the Japanese government's Immigration Bureau. The lawyer said the Afghans will appeal the decision.

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8 Bangladeshis turn themselves in for overstay

TOKYO, Japan - Eight Bangladeshi men who have overstayed their visas turn themselves in to immigration authorities Sept. 21 and request special permission to remain in Japan. One of the Bangladeshi men spoke at a meeting held by a voluntary group that helps illegal immigrants in Japan before they surrendered themselves at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau. (Kyodo)

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Family members of 2 deported Kurds given status to stay

TOKYO, Japan - Zeliha Kazankiran (2nd from R), a Kurd seeking asylum in Japan, answers reporters' questions Jan. 24 before entering the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau. The same day, the bureau renewed her monthly provisional status to stay in Japan along with that of four other members of her family. Her father, Ahmet Kazankiran, and brother, Ramazan, were deported Jan. 18. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar soccer player files for asylum in Japan after protest salute

A Myanmar national soccer goalkeeper applied for refugee status in Japan on Tuesday after expressing fear for his life for making a three-finger salute in protest at the military coup in his country during a recent World Cup qualifier near Tokyo, his lawyer said. Pyae Lyan Aung, who refused to return home with his teammates last week after the soccer match, submitted an application with the Osaka Regional Immigration Services Bureau, according to the lawyer.

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Special residency permit issued for Iranian family in Kofu

KOFU, Japan - An Iranian family of four -- Saeid Partow Helal (far right), his wife Mitra Keshavarz and their two daughters Anahita and Bita -- all look happy at a press conference after obtaining special residency permit from the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on May 11. (Kyodo)

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

TOKYO, Japan - Noriko Calderon, 13, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on March 9. Her father Arlan Calderon, an undocumented Filipino man, was detained for illegal stay earlier in the day after showing up at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau. (Kyodo)

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

WARABI, Japan - Arlan Calderon (front), an undocumented Filipino man, and his wife Sarah (in back) arrive at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Tokyo's Minato Ward on March 9. The immigration bureau detained Arlan for illegal stay and allowed Sarah and their daughter Noriko to stay in Japan for another week. (Kyodo)

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

WARABI, Japan - Arlan Calderon (C), an undocumented Filipino man, and his wife Sarah (R) see their daughter Noriko (L) off at Noriko's junior high school in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, on March 9. Arlan was detained for illegal stay after showing up at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau later in the day and was told that all three in the family will be deported March 17 unless they make a decision on whether they will depart from the country or leave behind the 13-year-old girl in Japan. The bureau allowed Sarah and Noriko to stay in Japan for another week. (Kyodo)

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Father of 13-year-old Filipino girl detained over illegal stay

WARABI, Japan - Sarah Calderon (R), wife of Arlan Calderon, an undocumented Filipino man, bids farewell to her daughter Noriko at Noriko's junior high school in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, on March 9. Arlan Calderon was detained later at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau for illegal stay and was told that all three in the family will be deported March 17 unless they make a decision on whether they will depart from the country or leave behind the 13-year-old girl in Japan. The bureau allowed Sarah and Noriko to stay in Japan for another week. (Kyodo)

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Filipino parents decide to leave daughter behind in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Sarah Calderon (L) and her daughter Noriko arrive at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Tokyo's Minato Ward on March 13. Sarah told the immigration authorities that she and her husband Arlan have decided to leave their 13-year-old daughter behind in Japan and go back to the Philippines in April. (Kyodo)

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Filipino family told set departure date by March 9 or be deported

TOKYO, Japan - Arlan Calderon, 36, and his wife Sarah, 38, an undocumented Filipino couple living in Tokyo, head for the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau Feb. 27. The Justice Ministry told them to set a date to leave Japan by March 9 or face deportation. The family's case has drawn public sympathy partly because their daughter, who was born and raised in Japan, says she wants to continue studying at her junior high school in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Special residency permit issued for elder daughter of Iranian co

TOKYO, Japan - Iranian Amine Khalil (R) and his daughter Maryam (L) show up at the Justice Ministry's Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Feb. 16 as Japan issued special residency permit the same day to the daughter who is scheduled to enter a two-year junior college in Gunma Prefecture in April. AmineAhis wife and another daughter have been ordered to leave Japan for overstaying their visas. (Kyodo)

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Filipino family granted temporary stay

TOKYO, Japan - Arlan Calderon (L) and his wife Sarah from the Philippines answer questions from reporters in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Jan. 14 after the bureau told them that temporary permission for them and their 13-year-old Japan-born daughter Noriko to stay in Japan has been extended by a month to Feb. 13 beyond its Jan. 14 expiration. Arlan and Sarah illegally entered Japan in the 1990s and the family is under a deportation order.(Kyodo)

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Embattled Iranian family's stay in Japan extended for 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - Iranian Amine Khalil (L) speaks in Tokyo on Nov. 10 before he was notified by the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau of the extension of temporary permission for his family of four to stay in Japan for another month. (Kyodo)

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Embattled Iranian family's stay in Japan extended for 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Nov. 10 gave permission for Amine Khalil (in photo) and his Iranian family to stay in Japan for another month on a temporary basis ahead of the government's decision on whether to issue them with a special residence permit. (Kyodo)

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Death of Sri Lankan woman at immigration facility in Japan

People opposing the revision of Japan's immigration control and refugee recognition law march in Tokyo on May 16, 2021. Many held up photos of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, a Sri Lankan woman who died in March while being held at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau in central Japan.

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Foreigners leaving Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign residents wait in line to obtain reentry permits in front of the Justice Ministry's Tokyo Immigration Bureau on March 17, 2011, before temporarily leaving the quake-hit country. (Kyodo)