Representatives of the company to which Nagai belonged held a press conference in Tokyo on the 2007th after a video camera and tape believed to belong to journalist Kenji Nagai, who was shot and killed while covering a demonstration against the then military regime in Myanmar in 12, were returned last month. In the verification so far, all of them were attributed to Mr. Nagai, but the filmed video was likely to have been edited, and he argued that it was necessary to clarify the truth.
The video camera and tapes, believed to belong to Mr. Nagai, were handed over to the bereaved family last month because they were obtained by Myanmar media, and the company to which Mr. Nagai belonged was examining them in detail.
At the press conference, APF News Agency CEO Toru Yamaji said that as a result of the verification, all of them matched the serial numbers known to the company, so "it was confirmed that they belonged to Mr. Nagai."
On the other hand, when compared with the footage obtained from the person who was filming the scene at the time, it did not include footage immediately after the shooting that Mr. Nagai was supposed to be filming, and pointed out that it was unnatural that the video was only about five minutes long due to the work of Mr. Nagai so far, and that it was likely that it was edited.
In addition, some of the camera parts are missing and have been used.
The company says it will release the footage and continue to verify it, and plans to submit the cameras and tapes to the police soon.
Mr. Yamaji said, "The return of the video camera is a big step forward, but we cannot be happy if we let it go, and there are still questions that have not been resolved, and the case is not over," and stressed the need to continue to clarify the truth.