Tsurugashima, Saitama Pref. – Restaurateur Manish Kumar isn’t getting a lot sleep lately.
Sporting a cap and a glum expression, the 54-year-old Indian nationwide sits at one of many empty tables inside his colourful restaurant in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, that was constructed from formative expertise gained cooking for a five-star resort in India. Papered to the wall are articles and evaluations celebrating the enterprise, and well-thumbed menus that includes biryani, naan, curries and lassi are splayed out on the restaurant’s half-a-dozen tables, however no prospects go by way of. The telephone is silent, the kitchen empty.
In April, Kumar closed the enterprise he ran for 18 years — a casualty of stringent modifications to Japan’s enterprise supervisor visa. Having arrived in Japan 30 years in the past, the longer term for him, his spouse and two teenage youngsters is now up within the air; their lives instantly untethered.
