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Freed filmmaker urges Japan to pressure junta
By Agence France-Presse
Nov 29, 2022 12:34 am

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.

Japanese documentary filmmaker and journalist Toru Kubota, who was recently released from Myanmar in a prisoner amnesty, speaks during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in the capital Tokyo on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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