Japan to monitor peace in Mindanao

JAPANESE FOR PEACE. Secretary Jesus Dureza (right), Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, hands out copies of the National Peace Month commemoration issue of the Philippine Free Press to Akira Sugiyama (left), Japanese Embassy Economic Section Minister-Counselor, and Masafumi Nagaishi (center), Japan’s representative to the International Monitoring Team (IMT). The Mindanao-based IMT is a composite of military, police, and civilian peace monitors from Malaysia, Brunei, Libya, and – recently – Japan. OPAPP