Opponents of the deportation order against an undocumented Filipino family in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, are mounting a last-ditch effort to win a reversal.
Unless their provisional release is re-extended, the family — Arlan Calderon, 36, his wife, Sarah, 38, both undocumented, and their Japan-born daughter, Noriko, 13 — will have to leave Japan by Friday.
Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Ritsuo Hosokawa, a strong candidate for justice minister if the DPJ comes to power in the next election, urged the Justice Ministry to allow the family to stay.
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