The recent deportation of 22 Pakistanis who misleadingly posed as a football team to enter Japan seems almost farcical at first; but in reality, it exposes the extreme lengths to which people are willing to go to leave the country. Almost all of these people were driven by poverty, which has grown in recent years to encompass nearly half the population after several decades of steadily coming down.

The desperate migration attempts are fueled by human trafficking........

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