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

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

NARITA, Japan - Police step up security at Narita airport Jan. 16 as an advance team of about 30 Ground Self-Defense Force members is set to leave for Iraq later in the day in what will be 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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