Japan filmmaker freed from Myanmar prison vows to tell story
TOKYO (AP) — Toru Kubota, a Japanese journalist who was arrested while covering a protest in military-ruled Myanmar and detained for more than three months, said his experience made him more determined to tell the story of people there.
“I feel I can understand their feelings more,” he said at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
Kubota, 26, was arrested July 30 and released on Nov. 17 in a broad prisoner amnesty announced by Myanmar’s military government.
He had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly breaking immigration law, sedition and other violations.