Last group of 1st GSDF contingent to Iraq returns home

Last group of 1st GSDF contingent to Iraq returns home

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A member of the first Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) contingent to Iraq is reunited with his daughter at a GSDF base in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on May 31 after some 140 members of the last group of the contingent returned home from a three-month mission.

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