Senior U.S. and Japanese government officials have shared concerns over the situation in Myanmar, including the need to restore democracy, the U.S. State Department's East Asian bureau said Monday following Myanmar's military coup.
The bureau said that its Acting Assistant Secretary Sung Kim spoke with Keiichi Ichikawa, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's North American Affairs Bureau.
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