FEATURE: Indian diaspora in Japan comes together to aid homeland
Indians in Japan have rallied to the aid of their homeland as it faces a raging resurgence of the novel coronavirus, with individuals, religious groups and businesses sending donations including prized cylinders of oxygen to different parts of the country with which they have connections. We want to go to India and help, but it is impossible in these circumstances. We cannot bear our country s pain and want to do as much as we can from afar, said a representative of Guru Nanak Darbar Tokyo, a Sikh temple in Japan s capital that has collected about 5.2 million yen ($48,000) from Indians and Japanese.
Indian diaspora in Japan comes together to aid homeland
May 27, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
This photo taken on May 14, 2021, shows Tejender Singh Gopa, head of Gurdwara Kalghidhar Sahib, a Sikh temple in New Delhi, receiving oxygen cylinders sent from Guru Nanak Darbar Tokyo. (Photo courtesy of Gurdwara Kalghidhar Sahib/Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) Indians in Japan have rallied to the aid of their homeland as it faces a raging resurgence of the novel coronavirus, with individuals, religious groups and businesses sending donations including prized cylinders of oxygen to different parts of the country with which they have connections. We want to go to India and help, but it is impossible in these circumstances. We cannot bear our country s pain and want to do as much as we can from afar, said a representative of Guru Nanak Darbar Tokyo, a Sikh temple in Japan s capital that has collected about 5.2 million yen ($48,000) from Indians and Japanese.
Posted on May 24th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A Sri Lankan student, detained by the Japanese immigration begged to be released to a hospital for medical care.
But, the officials refused.
She died on March 6, 2021 alone in her cell.
Protesters holding up pictures of Wishma during a demonstration in Tokyo. (Courtesy: Kyodo)
The records reviewed by Daily Mirror show instructions from a doctor reading: If (medicine) cannot be administered orally, she should receive an IV drip and be hospitalised.” The comment contradicts the content of the interim report, which says no recommendation for hospitalisation was made
Wishma dreamed of becoming an English teacher in Japan. She loved the country, its culture, and its people so dearly that when her mother was nervous about sending Wishma alone to an unknown country, Wishma said It is Japan. I am gonna be safe and fine.”
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