Japan eliminates stockpile of antipersonnel land mines

Japan eliminates stockpile of antipersonnel land mines

SHINASAHI, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gives a signal at a ceremony in Shinasahi, Shiga Prefecture, on Feb. 8 to a Hokkaido firm on a satellite hookup to detonate the last 25 mines of about 1 million antipersonnel land mines held by the Self-Defense Forces. Japan thus destroyed its land mine stockpile in line with the Ottawa Treaty.

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