Exiled Myanmar writer Ma Thida told audiences in Japan this year that critical thinking — nurtured through reading — is essential to resisting military rule and building a future beyond the junta.

After seizing power in a coup, the Myanmar military junta is attempting to show that a transfer to a civilian government has taken place based on an election that was neither free nor fair.

They are seeking medical services along the Thai-Myanmar border, straining health facilities. Some institutions temporarily closed after the United States cut support. The Japanese government has ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is "seriously concerned" that Myanmar's planned elections without release of those detained could provoke "further strong backlash from the people" and "make a peaceful ...

From rail links to Rakhine and Lunar New Year in Wa territory, Beijing deepens its Myanmar footprint as tensions rise with Taipei and Tokyo.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will have no choice but to rethink its Myanmar development aid if the situation in the Southeast Asian country does not improve, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on ...

Japan will provide US$6 million in emergency aid to assist victims of the recent earthquake in Myanmar, its government said. The details of the aid will be coordinated with relevant international ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -A Japanese former politician who campaigned to bring billions http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/12/09/JapanMyanmar.pdf of dollars of investment from ...