Japan's foreign minister visits Myanmar Rohingya villages

Work underway at border areas to prepare for return of refugees

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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono visits a village in Maungdaw region in Rakhine that used to be home to around 1,000 Rohingya Muslims.

HIROSHI KOTANI, Nikkei staff writer

RAKHINE, Myanmar -- Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono visited Myanmar's Rakhine state on Saturday after meeting with the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in the capital of Naypyitaw a day earlier.

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