After spending up to 25 years in a refugee camp in Thailand, three families from Myanmar arrived in Japan today to begin new lives under Asia's first-ever pilot resettlement programme. The 18 refugees ...

Japan's wartime occupation of Myanmar left deep human, economic, and historical wounds that must not be forgotten. by Zhou Xin During World War II (WWII), ...

Watanabe and the Japan Myanmar Association (JMA) he chairs declined to comment, as did Japan's foreign ministry. His position also poses a dilemma for some of Japan's largest companies who sponsor the ...

Myanmar's military junta is pressing ahead with a disputed election, the first since the 2021 coup. The voting is being conducted in three regional phases, the first of which took place on December 28 ...

(Tokyo) – Japan’s Yokogawa Bridge Corp. apparently transferred over US$1 million in 2022 to Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), which is owned by Myanmar’s abusive military, for a Japanese government ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese journalist to serve seven years in prison after he filmed an anti-government protest in July, a Japanese diplomat and the ...

(Tokyo) – A Myanmar air force lieutenant colonel who received military training in Japan is deployed with forces that have been implicated in serious abuses in Myanmar’s central Magway Region, Human ...

Human rights groups are calling on the government of Japan to cease training of Myanmar military officers, after it emerged that a Japanese-trained air force commander was based at an airbase ...

Like several of its Western partners, Japan will now be represented in Yangon by a chargé d’affaires rather than a full ambassador. Japan has become the latest country to downgrade diplomatic ties ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 28 September 2010 After spending up to ...

A Japanese former politician who campaigned to bring billions of dollars of investment from some of Japan’s top companies to Myanmar has urged Japan to endorse its military regime, saying the nation's ...