The government will cancel a ¥552 million project to build a human resource training center in Myanmar to protest the recent military crackdown on the democracy movement and the killing of a Japanese video journalist, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday.
The training center, which was to have been built within the compound of a public university in Yangon, was among a few major infrastructure projects in Myanmar being considered for Japanese official development assistance.
"We need to show the stance of the Japanese government. We cannot take actions that support the military junta," Komura said after a Cabinet meeting in which he reported the decision to other ministers.