A remote village in the Philippines with many war-displaced Filipino-Japanese descendants, or Nikkeijin, has received solar-powered lights from aid groups.
Seventeen civic groups in the Philippines agreed on Dec. 19 to form a network to eradicate statelessness of people in the country, including war-displaced Filipino-Japanese descendants, by 2024.
Seventy-seven years on, war-displaced Filipino-Japanese descendants on an island province in the western Philippines continue to struggle to openly claim their roots. But the descendants, known as Nikkeijin, who reside in Palawan, where anti-Japanese sentiment has run deep due to the casualties incurred on the island during World War II,…