New School Lifes For Filipino Girls

A Filipino girl whose parents are under a deportation order became a second-year student at a local junior high school Wednesday prior to her parents' departure from Japan to the Philippines next Monday.

Noriko Calderon, 13, was granted by the government in March special permission to stay for a year. Her parents chose to leave her behind in Japan and return to the Philippines rather than leave as a family.

"I would like to make efforts in both study and club activities," said Noriko, who has joined a music club at the Warabi city government-run school in the hope of eventually becoming a dance instructor.

In the morning, she left her home in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, for school, seen off at her home by her parents.

Her father, Arlan, 36, said it was good that his daughter would be able to continue to study in Japan.

The couple has decided to entrust Noriko to the care of her mother Sarah's younger sister who lives in Tokyo, according to their lawyer.

The special permission will allow the teenager, who speaks only Japanese, to continue going to junior high school in Japan.

The girl was born and raised in Japan and attends a local junior high school in Saitama Prefecture, the officials said.

Arlan Calderon came to Japan in May 1993, a year after his wife. Both entered the country using other people's passports and stayed undetected in Japan for years. Noriko was born in 1995.

But after Sarah was arrested for staying illegally in Japan, the family received a deportation order in November 2006.

They filed a lawsuit seeking nullification of the deportation order, but the Supreme Court rejected their petition in September 2008.

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