In this photo taken on August 1, 2025, Jose Villafuerte walks after visiting his mother's grave near his home in San Pablo, Laguna. After a lifetime of searching, Jose Villafuerte this month finally found the Japanese father he lost during the dark years of World War II in the occupied Philippines. The 82-year-old, a former gravedigger, was still in the womb of his Filipina mother, Benita Abril, when her partner, imperial army officer Ginjiro Takei, returned to Japan during its brutal occupation of the archipelago from 1942-45. (Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP)