Japan extends Iraq troops mission into 3rd year

Japan extends Iraq troops mission into 3rd year

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minster Junichiro Koizumi (C) is flanked by Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (R) and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shoichi Nakagawa at a special Cabinet session, called Dec. 8 to decide on a government plan to extend the deployment of Self-Defense Forces troops in Iraq into a third year till December 2006.

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