OSAKA (Kyodo) The Osaka immigration bureau has allowed a Chinese woman and her two children to stay in Japan for one year after her husband's residential status expires, their supporters said Saturday.
The three, who live in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, where the son attends high school and the daughter elementary school, were to be deported after the husband's investment company ran into financial difficulties.
Their supporters, including the principal of the son's high school, asked immigration authorities to let them to continue living in Japan, even if the Chinese man loses his residential status.
He established his own firm in Japan in 2006, and the family's residential status had been renewed every year, but the deterioration of the company's business prevented his status from being renewed.