Japan, too, saw a wave of protests over the goings-on in Myanmar, aided by the outrage over the death of Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai who was shot dead as he was filming the military crackdown in Yangon. Nagai is the first foreigner to be killed in the army action.

Image: A Myanmarese protester raises a portrait of democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in front of the Myanmar embassy in Tokyo on September 28, 2007
Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images