Japanese ground troops return home from Samawah, voice fear

Japanese ground troops return home from Samawah, voice fear

SAPPORO, Japan - A member of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unit poses with his family members on returning from Iraq to his garrison in Sapporo on Aug. 22. It is the first homecoming for members of the 470-member Ground Self-Defense Force unit dispatched to Samawah in May for a three-month tour of duty to provide humanitarian and reconstruction assistance.

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