Ashraf
Ali Sheak (aka "Sunny") Age: 30 years old. Home: Karachi, Pakistan.
Length of stay in Japan: 6 years. Native language: Urdu. Work: small
company which makes electronic parts for cell phones, cameras, etc.
Ashraf has worked at this company for five years. Ashraf is single and
came to Japan through the connection of his brother who had already
come before him.
Mohd.
Mujahid Cheema. Age: 25 years old. Home: Muhammed Tufail Cheema,
Pakistan. Length of stay in Japan: 6 1/2 years. Native language: Urdu
and own dialect. Work: small company which preps and paints metal items
such as signs, etc. He has worked at this company his entire stay in
Japan. He meets and marries Junko.
M.
Nasir Mughalquereshi. Age: 27 years old. Home: Tandalayar, Pakistan.
Length of stay in Japan: 2 1/2 years. He had visited Japan earlier as
a teenager in 1985. Native language: Urdu. Work: Small company which
preps glass components for FAX machines, etc. He is married in Pakistan
and has two children. He also has a girlfriend in Japan.
Hikari
Yagi. Age: 24 years old. Home: Ica, Peru. Native language: Spanish.
Length of stay in Japan: 3 1/2 years. Work: She has worked as a hostess,
a worker at a computer parts factory and plastic bag factory, and a
reseller of used cars in Peru. She originally came to Japan on a Nikkei
visa but is not of Japanese descent. She was a victim of the 1995 Great
Hanshin Earthquake and has returned to Peru.
Hassan Amiri. Age: 31 years old. Home: Kermanshah, Iran. Native
language: Farsi. Length of stay in Japan: 4 1/2 years. Work: Very unstable.
His last job was at a company that painted metal items, similar to Mujahid's
work. Prior to that, he had worked in construction. Hassan is of Kurdish
background. He was active at Foreign Labor Union (FLU) at the time of
filming.
Sally Abalos. Age: 24 years old. Home: Marikina, Philippines. Native
language: Tagalog. Length of stay in Japan: 8 months. Work: Hostessing
and prior to that as a computer parts factory worker. She finds her
work as a hostess in Japan humiliating.
Ashraf
Ali Sheak (aka "Sunny") Age: 30 years old. Home: Karachi, Pakistan.
Length of stay in Japan: 6 years. Native language: Urdu. Work: small
company which makes electronic parts for cell phones, cameras, etc.
Ashraf has worked at this company for five years. Ashraf is single and
came to Japan through the connection of his brother who had already
come before him.
Mohd.
Mujahid Cheema. Age: 25 years old. Home: Muhammed Tufail Cheema,
Pakistan. Length of stay in Japan: 6 1/2 years. Native language: Urdu
and own dialect. Work: small company which preps and paints metal items
such as signs, etc. He has worked at this company his entire stay in
Japan. He meets and marries Junko. 
M.
Nasir Mughalquereshi. Age: 27 years old. Home: Tandalayar, Pakistan.
Length of stay in Japan: 2 1/2 years. He had visited Japan earlier as
a teenager in 1985. Native language: Urdu. Work: Small company which
preps glass components for FAX machines, etc. He is married in Pakistan
and has two children. He also has a girlfriend in Japan. 
Hikari
Yagi. Age: 24 years old. Home: Ica, Peru. Native language: Spanish.
Length of stay in Japan: 3 1/2 years. Work: She has worked as a hostess,
a worker at a computer parts factory and plastic bag factory, and a
reseller of used cars in Peru. She originally came to Japan on a Nikkei
visa but is not of Japanese descent. She was a victim of the 1995 Great
Hanshin Earthquake and has returned to Peru.
