Now, the development in Myanmar attracts world attention. In March 2011, Myanmar moved from military to civilian rule. U Thein Sein from the army was appointed as the president. Contrary to the anticipation of general people, he tackled democratic reforms and improvement of human right abuse. Obviously, he aimed to improve the aggravated relationship with Western countries and remove the economic sanctions imposed by them. Following political reforms, the Thein Sein administration, then, put an emphasis on economic reforms in order to draw foreign direct investments （FDI） that were regarded as essential for Myanmar’ s economic development. Japan decided to resume yen loan to Myanmar in April 2012 and the United States permitted new investments by the US companies and lifted the ban on financial transaction in July 2012. Thus, a lot of business chances were created in Myanmar by the removal of economic sanctions. However, the hard infrastructure such as road, transportation, communication, ports and power is utterly insufficient. Especially, the power shortage is a serious problem for industrialization. Now, the government tries to do the best for creating the Special Economic Zones （SEZ） with full infrastructure. Above all, the SEZ of Thillawa that will be partly opened in 2015, is regarded as most important and promising. This SEZ is going to be jointly managed by public organizations and private companies of both Japan and Myanmar. So far, the main investors to Myanmar were China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK, but, on the other hand, Japan is only ranked as 10th as of 31 May 2014. In terms of figures of investment, Japan look like little interests in Myanmar, but, this situation will be drastically changed in a few years. The investments may substantially increase triggered by the completion of Thillawa SEZ and permission of operations of foreign banks.
