Photo: Japanese Embassy Officials In Manila

Secretary Jesus Dureza (right), Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process in the Philippines, 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.