Nakasone willing to consider alternative plans for SDF mission

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone speaks in an interview with Kyodo News and other Japanese media at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 30. Nakasone showed willingness to consider alternative plans, including new activities involving the Self-Defense Forces, in case a bill to extend the current antiterrorism support mission in the Indian Ocean fails to clear parliament.

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