Japan offers $5m for refugee resettlement in Myanmar's Kachin

Strategic competition between Tokyo and Beijing moves into a new realm

20191227 IDP camp in Myanmar

Japan will provide aid to help 3,000 people who fled their villages return home in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin. (Photo by Rie Ishii)

YUICHI NITTA, Nikkei staff writer

YANGON -- The Japanese government announced in late December that it will launch an aid program to help internally displaced people in a conflict zone in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin to return home.

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