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Tokyo: Japan may suspend humanitarian aid to Myanmar over the killing of a Japanese photographer during anti-government protests, a government spokesman said on Friday.
Photographer Kenji Nagai was shot dead on a Yangon street on Thursday. Doctors said the bullet that killed him passed from his chest through the heart and back.
"We will urge the Myanmar government to find out the truth about his death," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura.
"At this stage we have not decided to suspend grant aid," Machimura said, adding Tokyo would watch responses by the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations before deciding on sanctions.
Machimura said it was not clear whether the shooting of the photographer was deliberate or at close range, as some Japanese media had reported.
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