Saw Ba Hla Thein, the Japan representative of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, right, and Michihiro Ishibashi, a House of Councillors member from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, second from right, attend a fundraising event in Tokyo for displaced people in strife-torn Myanmar on Sept. 30, 2023. (Kyodo)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Myanmar residents of Japan held a fundraising event in Tokyo over the weekend to help provide support for the approximately 2 million people displaced in the military’s crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in the strife-torn country.
At the Federal Festival in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro shopping and entertainment district, members of ethnic minority groups performed traditional music and dancing and offered local dishes and crafts to showcase Myanmar’s diversity as a country with more than 100 ethnic…
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