(4)GSDF advance team to leave for Iraq Jan. 16

TOKYO, Japan - Police keep watch on a Shinkansen bullet train platform at Tokyo Station on Jan. 16. Security around the country has been increased ahead of the departure later in the day of an advance team of about 30 Ground Self-Defense Force members for Iraq. It is the first dispatch of Japanese troops to a country where fighting is taking place since the end of World War II.

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