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43-member GSDF advance team departs for PKO in E. Timor

CHITOSE, Japan - An official of the 41-member Ground Self-Defense Force's advance team talks with his family at New Chitose Aiport in Chitose, Hokaido, on March 18 before departing from the airport to East Timor to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping operation. The advance team is expected to arrive in East Timor's capital Dili on March 20, and to join a separate advance team of some 50 GSDF members already at work in East Timor.

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Mori observes disputed islands off Hokaido

NEMURO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori looks at the Habomai group of islets through a telescope April 7 from Cape Nosappu. Mori also observed the Habomai and three other disputed islands off eastern Hokkaido aboard a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter. Mori held a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in late March in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, to try to settle with Russia issues involving the islands.

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43-member GSDF advance team departs for PKO in E. Timor

CHITOSE, Japan - An official of the 41-member Ground Self-Defense Force's advance team talks with his family at New Chitose Aiport in Chitose, Hokaido, on March 18 before departing from the airport to East Timor to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping operation. The advance team is expected to arrive in East Timor's capital Dili on March 20, and to join a separate advance team of some 50 GSDF members already at work in East Timor.

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Kid marvels at "forest xylophone" at Hokkaido garden show venue

A child marvels at the sounds of a "forest xylophone" at the Daisetsu Mori-no Garden, the main venue of Hokaido Garden Show 2015 Daisetsu, in Hokkaido, on May 29, 2015. The garden show is running from May 30 to Oct. 4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mori observes disputed islands off Hokaido

NEMURO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori looks at the Habomai group of islets through a telescope April 7 from Cape Nosappu. Mori also observed the Habomai and three other disputed islands off eastern Hokkaido aboard a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter. Mori held a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in late March in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, to try to settle with Russia issues involving the islands.

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Mori observes disputed islands off Hokaido

NEMURO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori looks at the Habomai group of islets through a telescope April 7 from Cape Nosappu. Mori also observed the Habomai and three other disputed islands off eastern Hokkaido aboard a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter. Mori held a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in late March in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, to try to settle with Russia issues involving the islands.