Japan's foreign ministry says Ichiro Maruyama, Japan's ambassador to Myanmar, has been trying to persuade the military to release detained leaders, including Suu Kyi, and restore democratic rule.

A Myanmar air force lieutenant colonel who received military training in Japan is deployed with forces that have been implicated in serious abuses in Myanmar’s central Magway Region.

Japan provided the three vessels to Myanmar under the 500 million yen (US$3.5 million) Economic and Social Development Programme, signed on September 12, 2016.

Japan’s appeasement policy toward Myanmar, driven by geopolitics and disregard for human rights, is supporting the Rohingya genocide.

Japan alone must leverage its decades-long special relationship with Myanmar to lead such a change. Today, Myanmar finds itself embroiled in a protracted low-intensity conflict.

YANGON: Myanmar received 500,125 foreign tourists during the first half of 2025, according to the Hotels and Tourism Ministry on Tuesday (July 15).

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday placed a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, citing ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Japan, Myanmar’s largest aid donor, said today it had canceled a multimillion dollar grant to protest the military-ruled nation’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators ...

A military court in Myanmar sentenced the Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for violating sedition and communications laws, his lawyer said.

Japan says it will forgive about 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) of Myanmar's debt as a way to support the country's democratic and economic reforms.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged $7.7 billion in public and private support for Myanmar’s development in a meeting with de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping to lift the ...