KOTA KINABALU: A 72-year-old Japanese man who has been living on the streets here for two decades is set to return home on Wednesday. I sometimes feel I want to stay back as I don’t know what to expect there. He is expected to board a midnight flight to Tokyo, where social workers are expected to care for him on his arrival. The cook from Fukuoka originally came to Sabah in 1985 on a business venture to work with a rattan company here, but the business collapsed 10 years later. The Star wrote about his problems and Japanese social workers also responded to assist and eventually in February this year, officials from the Japanese consulate in Kota Kinabalu helped him sort out his documents and immigration issues.

Source: The Star March 22, 2017 10:33 UTC