China, India, Japan in Myanmar’s pocket: DU teacher Prof Imtiaz on Rohingya issue

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Updated: 28 Aug 2019 

Dhaka University’s Professor of International Relations Prof Imtiaz Ahmed has said Myanmar is staging a ‘drama’ in the name of repatriating the forcibly displaced Rohingyas as they feel they have 'some important' countries in the region in their ‘pocket’.

 

“They think they have at least three countries in their pocket, so they think, ‘what can Bangladesh do?’” he remarked, naming China, India and Japan, at a discussion on the two years of the latest Rohingya crisis on Tuesday.

IOM, Japan build solar-powered water supply network for 30,000 Rohingyas

UNB
July 31, 2019

Cox’s Bazar, July 31 (UNB) - One of the world’s largest humanitarian solar water systems was officially inaugurated on Wednesday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partner the Japan International Development Agency (JICA).

The network will provide safe, clean water to approximately 30,000 people living in the Kutupalong Mega-Camp from a deep underground well.

Rohingya crisis: Japan will stay beside Bangladesh

The Daily Star

June 07, 2019

Star Online Report

                       Says Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi addresses a press conference at his Baridhara residence in Dhaka on June 6, 2019. Photo: Star 

Terming the prevailing situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state complicated, Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi has said his country will stay beside the host country for immediate resolution into the crisis.
“Japan is beside Bangladesh on the Rohingya issue and it will continue its supports resolving the crisis,” Izumi said while addressing a press conference at his Baridhara residence in Dhaka yesterday evening.

Japan for safe repatriation of Rohingyas with UN cooperation

Dhaka Tribune
 Wednesday, Apr 17, 2019

More than 700,000 Rohingyas entered Bangladesh fleeing the violence which erupted in Myanmar on August 25, 2017 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Japan's envoy has said Japan supports repatriation 'peacefully, through negotiation' with Myanmar

Japan has emphasized the need for safe, voluntary repatriation of Rohingyas—with dignity—with the cooperation of the United Nations (UN), noting that there is not enough support for the Rohingya.

Origami planes carry peace message of Rohingyas to Hiroshima

Dhaka Tribune
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2019

Japanese Ambassador Hiroyasu Izumi and Representative of UNHCR in Japan Diek Hebecker handed the colorful origami cranes folded by Rhingya people to Vice Mayor of Hiroshima City Shiro Tani on Tuesay, April 16, 2019 UNB

Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar made one thousand origami paper cranes for Japan

One thousand origami paper cranes, folded by hundreds of Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar, have been transported to Hiroshima and have conveyed their wishes and messages for peace to the Japanese people.

Plight of Rohingya Muslims tied to Britain, Japan and World War II.

nzherald.co.nz

16 Mar, 2019

Nearly one million Rohingya refugees are in Bangladesh. Photo / The Washington Post by Ismail Ferdous

Washington Post
By: Jayita Sarkar analysis

Last month the United Nations and its partners appealed for US$920 million ($1.34 billion) to assist nearly one million Rohingya refugees now encamped in Bangladesh. These refugees are fleeing the violence in the northern part of the Rakhine state in Burma. That violence has been perpetrated by the Burmese military under the pretext that the Rohingya are not citizens of Burma, also known as Myanmar, but "resident foreigners" from Bangladesh who neither speak the Burmese language nor are part of Burma's myriad ethnic groups.

University hails Japan for helping empower Asian women

The Japan News
March 16, 2019

By Ikuko Higuchi / Japan News Staff Writer Japan was hailed by the Asian University for Women’s vice chancellor, Prof. Nirmala Rao, for helping make such a success of the university at an AUW fundraising event at the Tokyo American Club in the capital’s Minato Ward on Thursday.

“The first support group (for the university) was Japan’s, and it makes the largest contribution,” said Prof. Rao in her speech at the event. “Today, 38 percent of AUW’s entire budget comes from Japan.”

According to Prof. Rao, more than 800 students of 17 countries and 35 ethnicities, including Rohingya refugees who fled from violence in Myanmar, are currently enrolled at AUW. The majority of the students, 72 percent, are on full scholarship from the university, funded by foundations and businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Biotech firm, WFP team up for Rohingya

The Japan News

8:17 pm, February 26, 2019

                                                            Courtesy of Euglena Co.
                    Workers harvest mung beans in Bangladesh, cultivating the vegetable with the help of Euglena GG.

The Yomiuri Shimbun

A Tokyo-based biotechnology venture, Euglena Co., has formed a business tie-up with the World Food Program to introduce a cultivation technique for mung beans to Bangladesh and deliver the beans to Rohingya Muslims who have fled to the country.

Japan to give $32.5m for Rohingyas

The Daily Star

February 26, 2019

In this AFP file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

 

Japan has decided to give US $32.5 million for the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh due to persecution in Myanmar.

Japanese government took the decision for additional support to the refugees on February 7, said a press release of Japan embassy in Dhaka.

Japan to continue to support Bangladesh on Rohingya issue.

bdnews24.com
20 Feb 2019 02:00 AM BdST

Japan will continue its support to Bangladesh in its bilateral efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar.

Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshiko Abe said this during official talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Md Shahriar Alam in Dhaka on Tuesday.

He is paying a two-day visit to reiterate Japan’s efforts in resolving Rohingya crisis, the foreign ministry said.

Issues of bilateral relations were also discussed.

Japan aid for Bangladeshi farmers, Rohingyas

Japan today contributed US $5 million to support Bangladeshi smallholder farmers and Rohingya community sheltered in the country.

The country has signed an agreement with United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), said a press release issued from WFP in Dhaka.

( 25.08.2018 ) Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on 25 August 2018, in Tatebayashi Japan

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on 25 August 2018, in Tatebayashi Japan.We ,BRAJ thanks a lot to all participants for your solidarity with us.specially thanks to Mr.Zaw Min Htut & his children.
Thank you very much.