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Ex-Entertainer from Davao Shines as English Teacher in Japan
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DAVAO CITY — Sometime in the ‘80s, Annie Yanagida went to Japan to work as an entertainer, one of the thousands who go to that country each year to seek greener pasture.
But unlike most Filipina entertainers in Japan, Annie, who graduated from the Holy Cross of Davao College, saw other opportunities. After marrying a Japanese, she put up Annie’s English School, which she has been nurturing for the past 20years.

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[...] The story of a Filipina woman who came to Japan on an “entertainer” visa and eventually set up her own sucessful English language school. [...]