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TOKYO: A Japanese journalist released from Myanmar in a prisoner amnesty called on Monday for Tokyo to put more pressure on the junta and accept refugees fleeing the Southeast Asian country.Toru...

Toru Kubota said Japan should accept more refugees and take steps to ensure its funds are not being used by the military junta to kill people.

TOKYO — A Japanese filmmaker jailed for nearly four months in Myanmar described some of his detention there as "hell" and called on Tokyo to take a tougher stance against human rights abuses in the military-controlled country. The Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since the military overthrew an elected government last year. The junta has arrested thousands including...

A Japanese journalist released from Myanmar in a prisoner amnesty called on Monday for Tokyo to put more pressure on the junta and accept refugees fleeing the Southeast Asian country.

Toru Kubota, a Japanese journalist who was arrested while covering a protest in military-ruled Myanmar and detained for more than three months, says his experience has made him more determined to tell the story of people there

By John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese filmmaker jailed for nearly four months in Myanmar described some of his detention there as "hell" and cal...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese filmmaker jailed for nearly four months in Myanmar described some of his detention there as "hell" and called on Tokyo to take a tougher stance against human rights abuses in the military-controlled country.

Toru Kubota says he was among 20 people placed in what he described as a 'hellish' cell so tiny they had to sleep on top of each other

Toru Kubota says he was among 20 people placed in what he described as a 'hellish' cell so tiny they had to sleep on top of each other

A Japanese journalist released from Myanmar in a prisoner amnesty called on Monday for Tokyo to put more pressure on the junta and accept refugees fleeing the Southeast Asian country.