The government plans to invite to Japan this summer stateless people born to Japanese nationals and left in the Philippines after World War II, to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, sources said Thursday.
The government will help them collect information so they can take Japanese nationality and will also arrange meetings for them with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
"It is fully reasonable" for the children of Japanese people who migrated to the Philippines "to visit Japan and search for their families at the expense of Japanese citizens," Ishiba said in a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Councilors, the upper chamber of the Diet, on Wednesday. He added, "I would like to realize meetings with them if such meetings will allow Japan's thoughts to reach them."
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