Last GSDF troops return to Japan after Iraq mission

Last GSDF troops return to Japan after Iraq mission

TOKYO, Japan - Some 280 members of the Ground Self-Defense Force return to Tokyo's Haneda airport from Kuwait on July 25, bringing to a completion the roughly 600-member contingent's mission in the southern Iraq city of Samawah. (Pool photo)

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