Japan's tiny refugee community urges Tokyo to open doors wider

Ky Tu Duong (R), a former Vietnam refugee who now goes by his Japanese name Hitoshi Kino, and Cheth Chan Chrisna, a former Cambodian refugee who now goes by her married name Chrisna Ito, pose for pictures during Asia Sports Festa in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 25, 2015. Picture taken October 25, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out.

    Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.