TOKYO ? Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday defended his controversial visit to Japan, saying he wants to offer moral support to disaster-stricken Japan, which helped his own country recover from a massive tsunami in 2004 when he was in power.
?I feel like I?m attached to what?s happening there,? he said of northeast Japan, which he planned to visit this week.
Thailand?s opposition has criticized his visit and accused the country?s foreign minister of aiding a fugitive by asking Tokyo to grant a visa to Thaksin, who still has a two-year jail sentence for corruption to serve.
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