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What Have Japan's Self-Defense Forces Accomplished in Iraq?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Watai Takeharu
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On December 8, 2005 Prime Minister Koizumi announced that Japan's Self-Defense Forces would remain for another year in Samawa in support of the US war in Iraq. Their mission: to provide “reconstruction and humanitarian assistance”. What has the 500 person SDF mission accomplished and at what cost? How have local people responded to its presence?

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 12 , December 2005 , e11
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