Japan to fund visits by Japanese descendants in Philippines in August

Second-generation descendants of Japanese nationals, who were left behind in the Philippines and have been stateless since World War II, will visit Japan next month, with the Japanese government paying for their trips, their support group said Thursday.The decision to shoulder the costs of the visits of Jose Takei, 82, and Leonora Uehara, 85, comes after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba earlier this year expressed his willingness to do so.Ishiba met Takei and two other second-generation Japanese descendants when he visited Manila in April. The average age of the surviving second-generation des…READ FULL ARTICLE