Moeka Iida
speaker
279 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Moeka Iida’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The place has been around for two decades.
The owner, Sanjay Sahani, is from Nepal.
He first came to Japan as a chef back in 2006, and now he runs the place himself.
His curry and nans go for just a few dollars and they pull in a steady crowd, from office workers to pensioners.
He lives nearby with his wife and three children.
He speaks fluent Japanese and after twenty years he calls Japan home.
He tells me his regulars and neighbours are all like family.
Compared to Western countries, Japan has very little immigration.
Foreigners make up just 3% of the population, compared with 15% in the OECD, a group of rich countries.
But people like Sanjay are far from rare, and they're often a key part of community life.
Indian curry restaurants, like the one he runs, are everywhere.
Japan has somewhere between four and five thousand of them.
More than the number of McDonald's.
That's despite Japan having a tiny Indian population.
Many of these Indian curry places are actually run by Nepalese people.
You find them not just in cities but in remote rural towns as well.
But now they're in deep trouble.
Since last year, Japanese politics has turned hostile towards immigration.
As part of a broader crackdown, the government tightened the rules for the business management visa, a type of visa that a lot of foreign restaurant owners rely on.
When the government changed these rules, they had a different target in mind.
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