Meio University

...also believes that engagement and interaction with the junta will provide more leverage. Donald Seekins, a Burma expert at Japan's Meio University, said: "If Washington cuts down on the rhetoric about Burma as an "outpost of tyranny",...

In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, US, Burma, National League for Democracy, and US State Department

...and other traditional methods effectively served as doctors, according to Sumiko Ogawa, 43, associate professor on public health at Meio University in Okinawa. "Substitute doctors were the same in the sense that the ones people were...

In this article: Okinawa Prefecture, Masazumi Harada, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan, Banana, Mercury, and Kumamoto Gakuen University

...the junta? "We don't understand it very well at all, although it's not very easy to understand," says Donald M. Seekins, a Burma scholar at Meio University in Okinawa, Japan. Trying to fathom the regime's worldview doesn't mean we condone its...

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...work together on the same topic," said Shimada. Most of the students showed up in suits, except those from Meio University, who decided they would come dressed in "kariyushi," a traditional Okinawa garment. Each team got up on the stage...

In this article: Chiba University of Commerce, Asia, Seoul National University, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea

...at the Australian National University in Canberra. "There could be some symbolic changes," said Donald Seekins, a Myanmar expert at Japan's Meio University, including dropping a ban on visits to the United States by junta officials and...

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