Japanese troops will spend extra year in Iraq
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s cabinet decided Thursday to extend the country&#39;s deployment of non-combat troops in Iraq by one more year.
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More than half the respondents to a poll say Japan&#39;s government should withdraw its troops from Iraq next month when the mandate for their reconstruction and humanitarian mission expires, the daily Mainichi Shimbun says.
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Japan&#39;s junior ruling coalition partner backed extending the country&#39;s troop dispatch to Iraq for another year after authorization for the current mission expires Dec. 14.
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Japan will keep its troops in Iraq for another year, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Thursday, even though most voters want to end what is the nation&#39;s riskiest military mission since World War II.
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TONY EASTLEY: The Japanese Government says it will continue its mission in Iraq, despite the beheading of one of its citizens. The troop deployment is unpopular in Japan, but surprisingly, the political fallout
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The first batch of Japanese troops have returned home from Iraq after the nation ended its first deployment since World War II to a country where fighting is underway.
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Japan is preparing to mobilise troops to deal with wild animals such as boars, bears and monkeys.
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Japanese troops in Iraq don&#39;t face increased danger after Iraq&#39;s interim government yesterday declared a state of emergency to counter attacks by insurgents, said Hiroyuki Hosoda, the Japanese government&#39;s chief spokesman.
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After nearly seven months rigging convoys for runs through the desert around this remote base in western Iraq, Lance Cpl. Bobby Elsworth was hoping that returning to his home camp in southern Japan would mean an easier life.
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Japan&#39;s cabinet decided Thursday to extend the Self-Defense Forces&#39; (SDF) humanitarian assistance operation in Iraq by one year until Dec. 14, 2005.
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South Korea's parliament on Friday approved extending the mission of its 3,600 troops in Iraq for another year.
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Japan on Wednesday pledged to disburse $40 million (4.4 billion yen) in promised aid to Iraq to ensure that democratic elections slated for early next year get the country back on its feet.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is considering announcing an end to Japan&#039;s military mission in Iraq ahead of his meeting with US President George W. Bush later this month, the foreign minister said.
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Japan is to tighten security at its military camp in Iraq after a rocket shell landed inside the facility, the latest sign of a worsening security situation that is fuelling demands in Japan that the troops be pulled out.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Japanese leaders on Sunday insisted they would not cut short their troopsâ deployment in Iraq despite the discovery of the body of a Japanese backpacker killed by Islamic militants.
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Parliament in Seoul votes to extend for another year the deployment of South Korean troops in Iraq.
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Japan&#39;s defense minister was due to return home on Monday from a flying visit to Iraq after declaring the town of Samawa safe, setting the stage for the government to extend its troops&#39; humanitarian mission there.