The article profiles Tam, a 22-year-old Vietnamese student in Japan whose visa deadline looms after finishing a two-year language program. He works as a newspaper delivery rider and takes home about 80,000 yen a month, with no days off and tuition deducted. He still owes nearly 1 million yen in debt from studying abroad, and though the situation is tough, he hopes to return to Japan to work again. The piece also explains a broader pattern: since the 2010s, many Vietnamese have come to Japan on student visas to work, with lax visa checks and inflated documents allowing many so-called fake students to enter, leading to labor exploitation of this group.