should immediately cut ties with the Tatmadaw, including suspending a military study abroad program with Tatmadaw cadets and high-ranking officers.
Truly mindboggling this has been going on nearly one year after the coup.
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Teppei Kasai
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With this in mind, it's time Ambassador Maruyama and the Japanese government begin taking practical steps to hold the Tatmadaw accountable, including targeted sanctions against military leaders and companies. twitter.com/TeppeiKasai/st…
With this in mind, it's time Ambassador Maruyama and the Japanese government begin taking practical steps to hold the Tatmadaw accountable, including targeted sanctions against military leaders and companies.
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Maruyama's admission that Japan's "quiet diplomacy" has had no impact is an admission that its diplomatic betrayal of ethnic minorities including the Rohingya, large scale investments and ODAs, and the general coddling of the Tatmadaw, has been a major diplomatic failure. twitter.com/TeppeiKasai/st…
Maruyama's admission that Japan's "quiet diplomacy" has had no impact is an admission that its diplomatic betrayal of ethnic minorities including the Rohingya, large scale investments and ODAs, and the general coddling of the Tatmadaw, has been a major diplomatic failure.
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Teppei Kasai
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For the first time since the coup, Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Maruyama spoke to the media, admitting that Japan's "channel" with the Tatmadaw is "powerless."
Astounding that it took the 2021 coup for him to realize this.
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For the first time since the coup, Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Maruyama spoke to the media, admitting that Japan's "channel" with the Tatmadaw is "powerless."
Astounding that it took the 2021 coup for him to realize this.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Hun Sen is bankrupting ASEAN's credibility w/ his visit to #Myanmar to meet w/ illegal junta that commits #WarCrimes. He is not serving interest of ppl, only the interest of junta & its craven search for legitimacy. Message is clear: Hun Sen, stay home! @PeacePalaceK @ASEAN
I'm not surprised. U.S. military personnel in Okinawa and Japan at large have never been shy of displaying their imperialistic arrogance.
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Joshua Hunt
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For reasons that are very boring the magazine that commissioned that story never published it. But my reporting definitely indicated a callous disregard for Okinawa’s anti-covid measures on the part of many U.S. military personnel. I’m not surprised to see that it has continued.
For reasons that are very boring the magazine that commissioned that story never published it. But my reporting definitely indicated a callous disregard for Okinawa’s anti-covid measures on the part of many U.S. military personnel. I’m not surprised to see that it has continued.
I spent August/September of 2020 in Okinawa reporting on this issue and rarely saw U.S. military personnel wearing masks when off base. I’d come from Tokyo, where I lived at the time, and it kind of shocked me.
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Replying to @JapanIntercult and @JezebelKat
All U.S. military personnel in Japan have been required to wear masks off base for almost two years now, regardless of vaccination status. The new policy introduced today re-instituted mandatory masks on base indoors.