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COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2013
Clock is running out for some key Asian reformers
Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections. The son of former President Corazon Aquino looks set to control both houses of Congress, giving him a mandate to continue his reform policies. His biggest worry now is making them...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 21, 2013
Thein Sein stresses 'special place' for military
The military that ran Myanmar for decades will continue to play a major role in the country, the former general who has presided over the transformation of a nation that only three years ago was considered one of the world's most repressive said Sunday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 19, 2013
Myanmar opening to U.S. influence — and business
T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It's a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting U.S. leader to set foot in Myanmar,...
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2013
Defusing the ethnic powder keg in Myanmar
Despite their history of anti-government armed resistance, Burma's ethnic minorities do not pursue a separatist agenda. There is hope for resolving the conflicts.
EDITORIALS
May 3, 2013
Japan's approach to Myanmar
If Shinzo Abe visits Myanmar later this month as planned to deepen economic ties, it will be the first trip to that country by Japan's prime minister since 1977.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 18, 2013
Suu Kyi hopes to surmount obstacles to presidency
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi says that like any political party chief, she hopes to become her country's president, despite the obstacles in her path.
EDITORIALS
Apr 18, 2013
Ms. Suu Kyi visits Japan
As a result of Aung San Suu Kyi's first visit to Japan in nearly 27 years, the government should work out a basic principle for providing assistance to Myanmar.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2013
Suu Kyi: Japan gender equality poor
Myanmar opposition head Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Kyoto, where she lived in the 1980s, to speak on changes in her country and to chide Japan on its gender gap.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 14, 2013
Myanmar's unrest: Colonial legacy undermines nascent democracy
Alarming outbreaks of sectarian violence pitting Buddhists against Muslims in Myanmar cast an ominous cloud over that nation's democratic transition from military rule.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2013
Myanmar's 'cronies' face spate of criticism
A new English word has entered the colloquial language in Myanmar, a word that could not even be uttered in public until recently. The word is "crony," and it describes the business elite who exploited their closeness to the country's military rulers to amass vast wealth in the past two decades.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA / CHUBU CONNECTION
Mar 23, 2013
Myanmar beautician has Tsu-do list
Aspiring Myanmar beautician Yin Myat Noe Aung came to Japan with the hope of opening her own salon back home one day.

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
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