Just imagine yourself in this predicament.

You are in a foreign country. Not only are you without a passport, but also lack any documentation to prove your identity, and have no way of contacting your family.

And you reach out to your embassy for help, only to be turned away at the door because you have no proof of nationality.

That was M, the anonymous woman I once wrote about in this column.

Born in the remote highlands of Thailand, M arrived in Japan at the age of around 20 in the 1990s, apparently lured by........

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