Japan's top business lobbyist backs Myanmar coup, urges investment

Japan's top business lobbyist backs Myanmar coup, urges investment

A railway in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Pixabay.

A Japanese former politician who campaigned to bring billions of dollars of investment from some of Japan’s top companies to Myanmar has urged Japan to endorse its military regime, saying the nation’s coup leader has “grown fantastically as a human being,” while praising his “democratisation efforts.”