Slain Japanese journalist’s camera resurfaces after 15 years | Freedom of the Press News

A video camera that had been missing for more than 15 years after it was dropped by a Japanese journalist who was fatally shot during a protest in Myanmar was handed over to his sister at a ceremony in Bangkok.

Kenji Nagai was recording the demonstration on September 27, 2007, in downtown Yangon – part of a peaceful anti-military uprising known as the Saffron Revolution – when soldiers arrived, dispersing the crowd with gunfire. The 50-year-old journalist, who was working for Japan’s APF News, a small video and photo agency, was hit and mortally wounded. He was one of approximately 10 people killed that day.

Nagai’s sister Noriko Ogawa received the small Sony Handycam on Wednesday from Aye Chan Naing, head of the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Myanmar media organisation that was involved in its recovery.

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” she said. “This is a great…