It was an ordinary Sunday morning in Tsurumi District, Osaka, but this time it was particularly quiet.

The "China Morning Market", which has been in operation for thirty years, has not welcomed its noise as usual. The stalls were not set up and the oil pan was not heated. It was hard to imagine that this was once a well-known gathering place for Chinese in the Kansai region.

On October 20th, six Chinese men and women aged between 20 and 30 were sent to the prosecution in writing on suspicion of violating the Immigration Control Law.

They both hold a "skill internship" visa to live in Japan, daily dispersed in different places, only on Sunday came to the early morning market at the border with the Greater East City, engaged in oil bars, baked cakes, cooked soybeans and other work.

According to the survey, these interns worked only one day a week in this place, with a daily salary of about 7,000 yen.

This income is a necessary supplement to their living expenses in Japan.

In early October, a head of a store in the city called "Wallong Food" and a male employee, suspected of hiring these skilled interns who do not have the corresponding work qualifications, were arrested.

This incident directly led to the shutdown of the entire early market.

This early city has a high popularity among the Chinese community in Osaka.

Every weekend, there is a lot of people here, gathering snacks from all over China, from crispy onion pancakes and mellow soy milk to unique stinky tofu, sausage and various pickles. You can even taste the chili flavor of different regional characteristics.

For many in Japanese Chinese, this is not only a place to buy food, but also a place to solve distress, a community space thatins emotions.

However, years of operation have also brought many problems.

Street stalls occupied by occupation, illegal parking of vehicles, and noise on Sunday morning have long troubled some surrounding Japanese residents, and complaints have been endless.

Despite multiple warnings or minor repairs by the police in the past, the markets have repeatedly recovered after the wind.

At the end of August, the police began a more decisive centralized recovery operation.

With the head of "Walong Food" arrested, and the case of six part-time Chinese trainees sent to inspection, this China Early Market, which has existed for thirty years, has finally drawn a deadline.

Today, the streets have restored the former order and tranquility, and the smell of food and the boiling noise that once permeated have become memories.

This silent shutdown of the Chinese early market, which carries years of memory, leaves behind discussions about its thriving past and the real issues behind the events.