Japan extends Iraq troops mission into 3rd year

Japan extends Iraq troops mission into 3rd year

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of civic groups stage a sit-in rally in Hiroshima on Dec. 8 in protest against a government decision to extend the deployment of Japan's Self-Defense Forces troops in Iraq into a third year till December 2006.

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