Many Japanese, whose forebears ravaged the country in World War II, now profess a romantic sentimentality toward Myanmar. Yohei Sasakawa of the Nippon Foundation remembers eating rice shipped from the country in the lean years after the war in Japan.
许多日本人——二战时其先辈曾掠夺过这个国家——如今都对缅甸表现出某种浪漫主义情怀。日本基金会的笹川阳平回忆起战后艰苦时期曾吃到过的缅甸大米。他说：“在报答缅甸恩惠这方面我们实在是太迟了。”