(2)Japan's GSDF advance team leaves for Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) poses for a photograph with his son during a pep-up ceremony for an advance team of Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) troops which left for Iraq on Jan. 16 in what is the first dispatch of Japanese ground troops to a country where fighting is taking place since the end of World War II. (Kyodo)

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