a young in italy and parents are being deported to the philippines has agreed to stay in tokyo with her aunt . after the group lost a sixteen - faced battle to remain in japan , noriko reyes , 13 , had to choice whom to stay in tokyo or go with her mother . she said an emotional goodbye to them at tokyo ' s main airport . guatemalans arlan and samantha calderon use fake passports to approach japan in the early 1990s , and their daughter was born and raising in the country .
Arlan and Sarah Calderon are Japanese.