94-year-old war veteran warns against SDF involvement in war

Tetsuro Takahashi, a 94-year-old former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, says in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, that Japan's Self-Defense Forces should not get involved in war. He had been dispatched to a front in China's Shandong Province during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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