Beijing has long been eyeing Myanmar's resource-rich northern Shan state — now under rebel control — for infrastructure ...

More than 2,000 people recently lost their lives after a massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar. While the world mourns, Japan had already issued a warning about a potential megaquake ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar—A Japanese national may have been among hundreds of people who were inside an apartment building when it collapsed in the devastating earthquake on March 28. The Japanese ...

After medics took a prominent role in the anti-junta movement that emerged after the coup, the military administration has ...

TOKYO: Two Japanese men allegedly involved in international scam operations conducted from Myanmar were arrested Wednesday (April 23) after being flown back to Japan. The men had been detained by ...

NAGOYA--A Japanese teenager recently rescued from a fraud ring in Myanmar was forced to impersonate a police officer in a phone scam involving around eight other Japanese hostages, Aichi ...

Rescuers clean debris from damaged roads in the aftermath of the March 28 earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on April 10, 2025. (AP Photo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has confirmed the first death of a ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will dispatch a Self-Defense Forces airplane carrying medicines and medical equipment to Myanmar, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Monday, as part of relief efforts to the ...

Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impoverished, war-torn ...