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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Toru Kubota, a Japanese journalist who was arrested while covering a protest in military-ruled Myanmar and detained for more than three months, said his experience made him more ...

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 ...