We are happy to announce that we’ll hold a GGR Webinar. Anybody who pre-registers are welcome to join the event.
Title: [GGR Webinar] Impact of Geopolitical Confrontation on Myanmar
Date: February 28, 2025
Time: 18:30-20:00
Speaker: Mai Kyaw Oo (Spokesperson, Association of United Nationalities Japan)
Myo Min Swe (Director, We For All)
Kei Nemoto (Professor Emeritus, Sophia University)
Noriyuki Osada (Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization)
Language: Japanese
Preregistration Site: https://hrs.ad.hit-u.ac.jp/v33/entries/add/839
Mai Kyaw Oo is the Chairperson of the Association of United Nationalities Japan. A long-time advocate for Burmese and ethnic minority rights in Japan, he has founded and led numerous organizations, including the Palaung National Society (Japan) and the Association of United Nationalities (AUN) Japan, where she served as General Secretary and later as Chairperson (multiple terms). He has also held leadership positions in other Burmese and Shan organizations and coordinated various committees related to democracy and ethnic issues.
Myo Min Swe came to Japan as an international student and is currently working as an adult while participating in democratization activities. The Saffron Revolution that broke out in Myanmar in 2007 prompted him to devote himself to democratization activities. Since the military coup on February 1, 2021, he has been working to abolish the dictatorial military system and realize a federal democratic state in Myanmar. In June 2022, he established “We For All” which is a non-profit organization. The organization support internally displaced persons in Myanmar through various methods such as street fundraising activities and charity events. The organization strongly opposes the Myanmar violent army that staged a coup, and is working to ensure that the international community, including the Japanese government, recognizes the National Unity Government (NUG) and helps the people of Myanmar. The organization will continue to fight for a federal democratic nation with human rights and freedom.
Kei Nemoto is a Professor Emeritus at Sophia University (Tokyo). He is specialized in the modern history of Burma/Myanmar. His main articles and books published in English include: “Burma’s (Myanmar’s) ‘exclusive’ nationalism”, in Jeff Kingston (ed.), Asian Nationalisms Reconsidered, pp.218-229, 2016, Routledge; “The Anglo-Burmese in the 1940s: To become Burmese or not”, in The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies No.32, 2014, pp.1-23, Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University; “Neither Pro-British nor Pro-Japan: How the Burmese Political Elite reacted under British and Japanese Rule”, in Hugo Dobson and Nobuko Kosuge (eds.), Britain and Japan at War and Peace, 2009, pp.51-65, Routledge; and Reconsidering the Japanese Military Occupation in Burma (1942-45), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2007, 236pp.
Noriyuki Osada is Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), Japan. His research focuses on histories of urban society, migration, and the modern state-making in colonial and post-colonial Burma/Myanmar, while he is also assigned to observe and analyze contemporary affairs in Myanmar. He is the author of “The Border in Embryo: Immigration and Urban Governance in Colonial Rangoon” (2016, in Japanese) and the co-author of Myanmar’s 2015 General Elections: How Aung San Suu Kyi Came to Power (2016, in Japanese).
We are looking forward to your participation.
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