chan,” her first name with an affectionate Japanese honorific attached to the end of it.She came to Japan from the Philippines in 2015 on a tourist visa to visit her father, who had cancer.
In July of last year, she was found to have overstayed her visa and was placed in detention at the headquarters of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Services Bureau in the Konan area of Minato Ward.The detention center at the immigration bureau houses a number of people with similar stories, but what sets Pato apart from the others who are currently fighting their detentions is that she is a transgender woman.