More than a dozen human rights organizations are urging a Japanese retailer and its Myanmar subsidiary to drop a long-running defamation lawsuit against a prominent union leader that they say is meant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Reuters) -Myanmar authorities detained a Japanese documentary filmmaker after he attended a protest in the city of Yangon on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait photo of Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota, who has been detained in Myanmar, is displayed during a news ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A Japanese video journalist detained in Myanmar while covering a brief pro-democracy march has been charged with violating a law against spreading false or alarming news, the Southeast ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese journalist to prison after he filmed an anti-government protest in July, a Japanese diplomat and the Southeast Asian nation’s ...