Japan’s Myanmarese Diaspora a Year After the Coup: Ongoing Worries for an Oppressed Homeland

Than Swe is one of the movement’s leaders. He says he wants Japan to recognize the National Unity Government as soon as possible.

Ten Ten (right) advocates for democracy while working as a medical interpreter.

May, holding the microphone, tells the demonstrators how her family back home has fled to Thailand.

Aung Tin, a member of the Rohingya people, spoke in solidarity with the mostly Burmese demonstrators.

Following the action at the Foreign Ministry, the marchers demonstrated outside the Myanmar embassy.

Ishikawa (third from right) is working together with Myanmarese to support the resistance.

Some of the demonstrators made their appeal in Japanese: “The Myanmar Army is cruelly murdering many innocent Myanmarese.”