4/26/23, 9:49 PM Released journalist urges Japan to pressure junta | Frontier Myanmar Already have an account? Log in ISSUES SIGN UP NOW Close Japanese journalist Toru Kubota (C) speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on November 28, 2022. (AFP) Join the Frontier journalist Myanmar urges Japan to pressure Released community. It's free tojunta register, and you'll get special updates, exclusive content, and more.    Check the box below if you want us to send you our Frontier Fridays and/or Election Insider newsletters. These are free weekly By AFP news round-ups featuring the most important events shaping Myanmar. The Daily Briefing A Japanese and Media Monitor are onlyjournalist availablerecently to payingreleased members.from Insein Prison called on Monday for Tokyo to put more NOVEMBER 28, 2022 pressure on the junta and accept refugees from Myanmar. Newsletters Toru Kubota spent three-and-a-half months in prison after being detained near an anti-regime rally Frontier Fridays (English)in July along with two Myanmar citizens. in Yangon Our free weekly news round-up with analysis of the most important events shaping Myanmar Thousands of people have been jailed during the bloody crackdown on dissent in Myanmar since the February 2021 military coup. name@domain.com Kubota, 26, was sentenced to seven years in jail for filming an anti-coup protest and also received a three-year sentence for violating Myanmar’s immigration laws. Sign up He was released on November 18 along with thousands of other prisoners, including former British OR SIGN UP WITH ambassador Ms Vicky Bowman and Australian economist Mr Sean Turnell, an adviser to ousted state counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Facebook Google Kubota urged Japan, which has long been a major donor and investor, “to take a strong proactive to Terms human in Myanmar and also to more proactively criticise Myanmar for By signing up, youapproach agree to Hype's and rights consent toviolations receive messages, some of which may be automated, at the email provided above from or on that”. behalf of Frontier Myanmar via Hype. https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/released-journalist-urges-japan-to-pressure-junta/ 1/5