Jul 17, 2021
Aera magazine last month told this story: A 39-year-old woman working in her Tokyo apartment was interrupted by a buzz from the interphone. The caller was furious. “Will you kindly stop pacing the floor like that all day long? Thud, thud, thud! It’s driving me crazy!”
The woman was astonished. Through the peephole she recognized the man living directly below her. She hadn’t been pacing, she said, she’d been working on her computer. “Don’t give me that!” the man barked.
Frightened, the woman hung up and called the building superintendent who found that whatever noise the man had heard could not have come from her. Possibly it had come from another residence. Soundproof tape was applied to the relevant vents. But the woman’s peace was shattered. She hardly knows the man. Is he sane? One never knows. “If I’m found dead, he’s the one who did it,” she told friends, only half joking.
Japan grants visas to 300 Myanmar nationals amid political unrest
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Japan Extends Visas Of 300 Myanmar Nationals
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Published: 04 Jul 2021 10:56 AM BdST
Updated: 04 Jul 2021 10:56 AM BdST Ko Pyae Lyan Aung, a professional soccer player, on a practice field in Osaka, Japan, June 26, 2021. After defying Myanmar’s military rulers at a soccer match, Pyae Lyan Aung decided to seek asylum. But he was being watched. (Shiho Fukada/The New York Times)
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The athlete, Ko Pyae Lyan Aung, had come to Japan with Myanmar’s national team. On the field, before the first match, he had flashed a gesture of defiance the three-finger salute made famous by “The Hunger Games” against the military junta that had ousted his country’s elected government. He was now afraid of what might happen if he returned home.