Filipino man with Japanese roots denied in request for Japan nationality

An 82-year-old man of Japanese descent from the Philippines has had his request for Japanese nationality rejected by the Tokyo Family Court, a Japan-based group supporting him said Friday.Jose Takei, who was among those left behind in the Philippines at the end of World War II and rendered stateless, visited Japan in August on a government-funded trip as part of Japan's broader effort to help such people obtain citizenship eight decades on.Takei was born to a Japanese man, a railway engineer who lived in Luzon, the Philippines' main island, and a Filipino woman. His father disappeared while…READ FULL ARTICLE