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Japan's Iraq Conundrum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Sakai Keiko
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One year ago this month, an advance team from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) arrived in Iraq on a mission – so the Japanese public was told – to help rebuild the wartorn country. The rest of the main contingent of 600 troops soon followed.

Then, on Dec. 9, 2004, amid simmering debate over whether the dispatch fell foul of Japan's war-renouncing Constitution – and after an Asahi Shimbun poll registered over 60 percent opposition to it – the Cabinet of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro extended the Self-Defense Forces' stay by another 12 months.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , February 2005 , e20
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