Upper house to OK bill to extend Japan's Iraq mission Wed.

Upper house to OK bill to extend Japan's Iraq mission Wed.

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition members protest the decision by the chairman of the upper house Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to put to vote a bill to extend by two years the deployment of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force for Iraqi reconstruction on June 19. The panel approved the bill, paving the way for its passage in a plenary session of the upper house on June 20.

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