(2)Japan's advance team in Samawah

(2)Japan's advance team in Samawah

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Col. Masahisa Sato (3rd from L), head of the advance team of Japan's Ground Self-Defense noncombat troops in Iraq, inspects a war-damaged school building in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Jan. 25.

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