Diet passes bill on SDF help for U.S. military action

Diet passes bill on SDF help for U.S. military action

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's official residence on Oct. 29 after the House of Councillors, the upper house of Japan's bicameral parliament, passed a bill aimed at enabling the Self-Defense Forces to lend noncombat support to U.S. retaliatory strikes for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

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