Japanese-Filipino left in Philippines post-WWII denied Japanese nationality

TOTTORI, Japan - A 95-year-old Japanese-Filipino woman left behind in the Philippines after World War II has had her request for Japanese nationality denied, her lawyer revealed Friday.

Rosalina Kamba Fernandez submitted her application to the Yonago branch of the Tottori Family Court in March, two months after she visited Japan on a trip funded by the Japanese government as part of its broader effort to help descendants obtain citizenship more than 80 years after the end of the war.