GSDF staff to be dispatched to S. Sudan

GSDF staff to be dispatched to S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Yasutoshi Nishimura, senior vice minister of the Cabinet Office, and three officers of the Ground Self-Defense Force, attend a ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2013, ahead of the GSDF staff's departure for South Sudan on Jan. 4 to replace their colleagues at the U.N. headquarters in the capital Juba.

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