Filipino couple, facing deportation, decide to leave daughter behind

Saturday 14th March, 04:41 AM JST

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earthcreature at 01:40 AM JST - 14th March

This is horrible news. How can people separate families just because of some stupid laws. This is inhumane, they are getting kicked out like dogs, they are no animals they are human beings! People need to realize and give people a chance to be happy and let them have a shot at success. Immigrants, to my opinion are the heart of any country because they are the ones that will always want to achieve something in their life, while their are a few bad apples, that doesn't mean everyone will be. Open borders is the way to go in my eyes. The law was meant to protect and serve, but when was the last time it did just that? And not corruption and power? A lot of people making this laws are the same people that are filling there wallets with money and getting all there families to the highest places possible, while we sit and argue on a poor family we fail to see that they are being robbed the same way we all are, and that goes for any country out there.
nurse13 at 02:10 AM JST - 14th March

While I sympatize with the Filipino family, however from a legal standpoint they broke the law and therefore should be handled accordingly. In this case, they should be deported despite my humanitarian beliefs. If they are pardoned, every other illegal immigrant will demand such special treatment as well. Every country has his or her own laws to uphold order. This just happens to be the Japanese law. The big picture is not every country share the same beliefs, values, laws, and customs. Perhaps not even in neighboring communities in the same country.
Mark_McCracken at 03:21 AM JST - 14th March

Immigrants, to my opinion are the heart of any country...

What about the country they are leaving?
airrunwesker at 03:45 AM JST - 14th March

This shows honor that they put Noriko first... They out their daughter first and did not risk her future for their own sakes.
francisco3269 at 03:53 AM JST - 14th March

nurse13........ I completely agree with you. The parents broke the law to begin with, if you break the law you must pay, and they have. Great decision!
sensei258 at 06:09 AM JST - 14th March

TokyoGas - that "only speaks Japanese" line is true, but they left off the rest of the sentence "...when she's at the Immigration Bureau." Of course she speaks Tagalog. They're just trying to up the sympathy factor.
mikihouse at 09:53 AM JST - 14th March

Yup, Noriko speaks fluent tagalog or Pilipino to be accurate.Her parents could not speak fluent Japanese so the girl was raised as a pure blooded Filipina. She went to Japanese school so her Japanese is perfect and used it as a pretense that she can't communicate in Pilipino. Anyway, the Calderons made Philippines so bad, insulted the Filipino people, calling the Philippines as hell, not a place to live, a rotten place where no good things come out...If I am a Philippine president, I will make sure that the Calderons will be banned eternally from entering the Philippines. I met a lot of Filipinos in Japan who are intelligent, graduated in Philippine universities, have good stable jobs, proud of their country, some of them came from very poor family but eventually did their best. Its a shame really for the Calderons to have acted, bad-mouthed, debased the entire Philippines. I do hate their kind.
kwatt at 12:17 PM JST - 14th March

As long as Noriko's parents are still using fake passports and also overstaying illegally in Japan they have to or had to go back to Philippine. Noriko now can get special permission to stay for education in near future. She would go to College someday and work for Japan and would be a Japan National in the future. After all she would bring her parents back to live happily together here.
wanderlust at 01:20 PM JST - 14th March

Both entered the country on passports of different people and stayed undetected in Japan.

Nobody seems to have answered the question as to how they have lived in Japan so long with no valid papers. Birth, school, housing, health, taxes - all require some form of ID. How did they manage it? Or would an answer prejudice the lives of the other estimated 200,000 Pinoy who live tago ng tago in Japan?
noypikantoku at 01:58 PM JST - 14th March

Japan hates the Philippines.... Everytime the media feature things about Philippines it's always bad and negative , unlike Europe, Australia , Thai, Bali, America they always feature good things..after when I'm done with my business here with Japan , and becomes good at what I do, I will go back home and run a campaign for my fellow countrymen not to go to Japan.,.,Ill do my best to do this in fact Japan doesn't need us and foriegners so I think Phil. Can go on without Japan too...
kwatt at 02:06 PM JST - 14th March

Someone fabricated their passports using same photos before expired otherwise they could not renew Alien cards every time from Saitama city hall. Her father have worked and paid all taxes for 16 years under fake ID. There was no problem until someone noticed passports fake
moccachan09 at 07:09 PM JST - 14th March

noypikantoku, "Japan hates the Philippines" is a sweeping statement. After 16 years of abundant life in Japan, the Calderon should be thankful to Japan and not bad-mouth the country that gave them food, shelter and little luxuries in life which as you said the Philippines cannot afford to give to Filipinos.

Imagine if they live in the Philippines for 16 years, they might have died of hunger. Have you forgotten your statement that all Filipinos are dying of hunger? And you said that you are also in Japan, you must also be enjoying the luxuries you cannot afford in the Philippines, you should be thankful of that, if not, GO HOME!!

You are the kind of Filipino that made your country's image lowly and in bad light in the eyes of Japanese and other foreigners.
moccachan09 at 07:13 PM JST - 14th March

airrunwesker This shows honor that they put Noriko first... They out their daughter first and did not risk her future for their own sakes.

I guess not, they have to leave her because of the "promise" they can visit her. The desire is so strong that they forget the value of parents' to the lives of their children. Imagine not having both mother and father in a foreign land? I read from a Filipino blog who is a close friend of the family that the daughter is really fluent in Tagalog and raise the Filipino way.
letstalk at 08:07 PM JST - 14th March

You know, I still find it odd that the parents did not teach their daughter tagalog. Unless other family members speak Japanese, Noriko will have to rely on her parents to translate everything. What about calls to home (assuming they called to the Phils during the holidays, birthdays etc) to speak with cousins, grandma, grandpa, auntie, uncle etc. Of course I could be totally off base

I completely agree. I am a Filipino married to a Japanese and have a child half-Japanese/half-Filipino. At home, her father speaks to her in Japanese and a little English. I speak to her in 3 languages which is Japanese, English and Filipino. My in-laws speak to her in Japanese while my family in the Philippines speak to her in English.

My point is, I really find it hard to believe that a child with both Filipinos as parents would speak in plain Japanese even in the comfort of their own home and away from the prying eyes of their neighbors. Taking into consideration that Japanese is not the parents mother tongue but a third language they just learned. What they claim CAN BE TRUE but very odd. Simply because, as foreigners, even if we can speak Japanese fluently for having stayed in Japan for many years, there are still words we do not know and there are times we may find ourselves not able to express everything we want to say.

Or maybe, it's just me..,
letstalk at 11:56 PM JST - 15th March

after when I'm done with my business here with Japan , and becomes good at what I do, I will go back home and run a campaign for my fellow countrymen not to go to Japan.,.,Ill do my best to do this...

Oh my word!!! Talking about gratitude..,