Japan's Iraqi reconstruction aid mission ends with ceremony

KOMAKI, Japan - About 450 members of the Air Self-Defense Force return home to an ASDF base in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, from Kuwait on Feb. 15 after Japan formally ended its five-year reconstruction aid operations in Iraq. The ASDF members had carried out withdrawal-related tasks at a Kuwaiti base from early December after Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada issued an order in late November for the return to Japan of a contingent of airmen who had airlifted goods and personnel for multinational forces and the United Nations to and from Iraq. (Kyodo)

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