Feeling cast adrift in Japan


Larger than life: Masao Tsutsumi, general manager of Osaka-related marketing at Nissan Motor Co., standing with a Leaf electric vehicle in front of a giant poster of Osaka at the company’s showroom in Yokohama.— AP

TOKYO: When Yuki Shiraishi passes through immigration at Tokyo airport, she is hit with a wave of shame and embarrassment.

While her parents whizz through the line for Japanese nationals, she is stuck with the foreigners, surreptitiously trying to hide her Swiss passport.

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