(1)Japan's GSDF advance team leaves for Iraq

(1)Japan's GSDF advance team leaves for Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - An advance team of about 30 Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) troops (fore) get cheers from their family members and Defense Agency officials during a pep-up ceremony held at the Defense Agency headquarters in Tokyo prior to their departure for Iraq on Jan. 16. This is the first dispatch of Japanese ground troops to a country where fighting is taking place since the end of World War II.

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