Despite Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s pledge last February to “appropriately handle” the flow of government aid to Myanmar’s abusive military, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official told the ...

TOKYO—A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has been released after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, officials said Tue ...

A Japanese national may have been among hundreds of people who were inside an apartment building when it collapsed in the devastating earthquake on March 28.

A senior United Nations monitor who has authored multiple reports on Myanmar since a 2021 military coup upended its fragile democracy is warning the country is sinking deeper into crisis. Tom Andrews ...

YANGON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Inc is charging into Myanmar. The rush began one night last October, when Myanmar's new president rolled out a map after dinner to show an aging Japanese power broker a ...

BANGKOK--Companies from at least 13 countries have helped Myanmar build up its capacity to produce weapons that are being used to commit atrocities following a 2021 military takeover, independent ...

More than a dozen human rights organizations are urging a Japanese retailer and its Myanmar subsidiary to drop a long-running defamation lawsuit against a prominent union leader that they say is meant ...

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 ...

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 ...