Tuesday, February 03, 2004

HISTORY
The first batch of Japan's main army contingent was set to depart on Tuesday for Iraq on the country's first military mission to a de facto war zone since World War II, as the opposition boycotted parliament over the dispatch.

Nudged by its key ally, the United States, to take a bigger global security role, Japan plans to send about 1,000 military personnel in all to help rebuild Iraq.

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