A woman from Myanmar involved in her country's democracy movement says she has been granted refugee status in Japan, after applying for it last September citing political persecution.
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.