Given its political and economic influence over the Myanmar military, the Japanese government can do more to help the international community pursue non-military R2P options. Japan has been ...

However, Japan informed the Myanmar military in November that it would overhaul the project, and consider canceling some parts of it, according to sources linked to diplomatic relations between ...

Some people in Myanmar people feel their situation has been forgotten amid the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. Organizers of the January 20 Japan fundraiser hoped to address those concerns.

In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...

There are signs this is already happening. While in Japan, the officials exchanged ideas with a bipartisan coalition of Diet members supporting Myanmar's democratization. That was followed by ...

The beauty in this corner of Shan state, in northeastern Myanmar, might seem a respite from the country’s brutal civil war. Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these ...

In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar’s Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country’s ruling junta to try to reclaim ...

A Japanese documentary filmmaker has been sentenced to a total of 10 years in jail by a court in Myanmar. Toru Kubota, 26, was first detained in July near an anti-government rally in the capital ...

TOKYO -- An initiative based out of Hitotsubashi University in Japan will help democracy activists fleeing Myanmar, Hong Kong and other parts of Asia find sanctuary within the region starting next ...