Japan Update July 3, 2019

	Myanmar's strategic  coastline lures  big Asian economies YANGON -- Japan and other  Asian heavyweights are  aggressively backing new port  projects in Myanmar, seeking a  foothold on the coastline of a  country strategically located   between China, India and Southeast Asia. A Japanese logistics company  and two trading houses opened  a new container terminal  last month next to the  hilawa Special Economic  Zone outside Yangon. Such projects are partly an  effort to catch up with China,  which has a head start  in Myanmar  infrastructure projects.
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