Japan's foreign ministry says Ichiro Maruyama, Japan's ambassador to Myanmar, has been trying to persuade the military to release detained leaders, including Suu Kyi, and restore democratic rule.

A Myanmar air force lieutenant colonel who received military training in Japan is deployed with forces that have been implicated in serious abuses in Myanmar’s central Magway Region.

Four years of civil war between Myanmar's military and its myriad opponents have shattered communications networks.

A woman from Myanmar who had worked for a ramen restaurant in Japan has sued its Tokyo-based operating company demanding some ...

Japan provided the three vessels to Myanmar under the 500 million yen (US$3.5 million) Economic and Social Development Programme, signed on September 12, 2016.

Japan has been an important economic partner of Myanmar: It is Myanmar’s sixth-largest direct investor, the third-largest importer of Myanmar products, and the seventh-largest exporter to Myanmar.

Japan alone must leverage its decades-long special relationship with Myanmar to lead such a change. Today, Myanmar finds itself embroiled in a protracted low-intensity conflict.

A military court in Myanmar sentenced the Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for violating sedition and communications laws, his lawyer said.

Japan says it will forgive about 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) of Myanmar's debt as a way to support the country's democratic and economic reforms.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged $7.7 billion in public and private support for Myanmar’s development in a meeting with de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping to lift the ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Japan, Myanmar’s largest aid donor, said today it had canceled a multimillion dollar grant to protest the military-ruled nation’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators ...