TOKYO: A Japanese documentary filmmaker and journalist released from Myanmar in a prisoner amnesty called on Monday for Tokyo to put more pressure on the junta and accept refugees fleeing the Southeast Asian country.

Toru Kubota spent three-and-a-half months in prison after being detained near an anti-government rally in the former capital Yangon in July along with two Myanmar citizens.

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