Life on Foreign Land Burmese in Japan

To escape the oppressive military regime in Burma Myanmar Kyaw Kyaw Soe fled to Japan in 1991 leaving his wife behind in his motherland He spends his days working in a restaurant to make a living and continuing his prodemocracy activities that were banned in Burma Later his wife is able to join him in Japan and the two of them run a Burmese restaurant Thus begins their new life together in exile Living in Japan for more than 20 years Kyaw Kyaw Soe is caught between the wish to be with his family in his own country and the desire to see democracy in his homeland