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Japan s Myanmar community is supporting the country s protest movement from afar. More than 33,000 people originally from Myanmar call Japan home. Many of them fled during the 1988 military crackdown.
The latest coup has opened old wounds. But it s also bringing the older generation closer to the young people who are now standing up to the military.
Two generations, one goal
Than Swe, 60, witnessed the democracy uprising and military crackdown in 1988 when he was a geology lecturer at a university in Yangon. He supported the young activists but, worried that he would be detained as a result, fled to Japan the following year.
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