Misaki Otsuki can never forget her encounter last summer with a Myanmar boy who evacuated to a camp in Thailand due to Myanmar military airstrikes on anti-junta forces in border areas.
A senior member of Myanmar's shadow civilian leadership, the National Unity Government, urges Japan to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on Myanmar's military in coordination with ASEAN in a bid to end the junta's brutal rule.
Myanmar residents of Japan hold a fundraising event in Tokyo to help provide support for the approximately 2 million people displaced in the military's crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in the strife-torn country.
Toru Kubota, who was arrested in July at a protest in Myanmar, was sentenced to three years in prison for sedition and seven years for violating a law on telecommunications.