(1)Protesters demonstrate against SDF dispatch to Iraq

(1)Protesters demonstrate against SDF dispatch to Iraq

KOMAKI, Japan - Riot police (R) keep watch on student activists (L) protesting the dispatch of Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops to Iraq, in front of the main gate of the Air Self-Defense Force base at Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 24. A send-off ceremony was held at the base the same day for the first unit of noncombat troop deployment there. (Kyodo)

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