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	Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Troops for the liberation came primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom, but twenty-nine other nations also provided some troops, and there were varying levels of assistance from Japan and other allied countries.
		The Philippines put a hold on new deployments and were planning to pull out shortly, but on 16 July 2004, the Philippines ordered the withdrawal of all of its troops in Iraq in order to comply with the demands of terrorists holding Filipino citizen Angelo de la Cruz as a hostage.
		Deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq : Japanese government's deployment of troops to Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Post-invasion_Iraq,_2003-2005 (8312 words)

	Deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2004, the Japanese government ordered a deployment of troops to Iraq at the behest of the United States: A contingent of the Japan Self-Defense Forces was sent in order to assist the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
		This controversial deployment marked a significant turning point in Japan's history as it is the first time since the end of World War II that Japan sent troops abroad except for a few minor UN peacekeeping deployments.
		The Koizumi administration, however, decided to send troops to respond to a request from the U.S. The divided nature of Japanese public opinion was also taken advantage of by Iraqi insurgents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deployment_of_Japanese_troops_to_Iraq (322 words)

	Iraq
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/iraq.html (1709 words)

	Japanese troops for Iraq
		Japanese troops will be based in the southern Iraqi town of Samawa, which is situated in the comparatively tranquil Shia-dominated part of the country.
		Japanese troops were deployed in United Nations peace-keeping missions after the Diet passed a law authorising this in 1992.
		Japanese troops were also despatched to Afghanistan, where they were mainly deployed for offshore duties.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2104/stories/20040227001705500.htm (868 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Japanese troops leave for Iraq deployment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In front of a horde of reporters at Tokyo's main international airport, 23 Japanese air force personnel dressed in civilian clothes filed onto a pair of commercial flights bound for Kuwait and Qatar to begin preparing for the later deployment of 1,000 non-combat troops to Iraq.
		Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who also sent non-combat troops to aid the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, has championed the mission to Iraq, arguing that it will contribute to stability in the country and strengthen his nation's 43-year alliance with the United States.
		His defense chief described the deployment as a "new stage" for Japan's military, which is tightly constrained by a constitution that renounces war.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/12/26/japanese_troops_leave_for_iraq_deployment (553 words)

	Koizumi sends Japanese troops to Iraq
		The Japanese government’s fact-finding mission reported to the cabinet that “there exists the possibility of attack” on their troops, as there were “efforts by remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime to enter the [Samawah] region”.
		The Iraq deployment is in many respects the culmination of a 12-year process during which the Japanese ruling class has reasserted its right to use military power.
		Koizumi is aware that deaths of Japanese soldiers, or deaths caused by them, could become the trigger for a wave of recriminations against his government, the breakup of the coalition with New Komeito or a move against his leadership.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/dec2003/japa-d16.shtml (1718 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Junichiro Koizumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japan's deployment is set to end on December 14 but Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is widely expected to defy domestic opposition by extending what is Tokyo'...
		Koizumi Junichiro (小泉純一郎) (born January 8, 1942) is a Japanese politician and the current Prime Minister.
		The event holds even greater significance than previous visits in light of the imminent dispatch of Self-Defense Forces troops to Iraq.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Junichiro_Koizumi (962 words)

	Japanese troops arrive at Iraq base on historic combat zone deployment
		Japanese ground troops arrived at a Dutch military base in southern Iraq on Sunday, at the start of an historic first deployment of the Self-Defence Forces to a combat zone since World War II.
		The Japanese are armed with pistols, 5.56 mm Japanese-made automatic rifles and heavy machine-guns, in addition to two types of anti-tank weapon, according to Lieutenant Colonel Shigeru Yamasaki, head of the Task Planning and Liaison Unit.
		A total of just over 500 ground troops, 200 airmen and an equal number from the Japanese navy are to be deployed to Iraq to carry out a humanitarian programme.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040208193752.okjgrxwv.html (645 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Japan may delay Iraq force
		The deployment of Japanese troops in Iraq may be postponed, following the recent bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
		But many Japanese voters were opposed to the planned intervention, even before the bomb attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad.
		Mr Koizumi has repeatedly pledged that troops would only be sent to "non-war zones", but Tuesday's truck bomb attack, which killed the UN envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 23 others, has highlighted the danger to foreign personnel in the country, even those in strictly non-combat roles.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3169401.stm (418 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In December, polls showed that the majority of Japanese people were opposed to sending troops to Iraq, and while support for the deployment has increased slightly in recent weeks due to Koizumi's impassioned public defense of the dispatch, it is clear that Japan has been polarized by the issue.
		In late January, opposition lawmakers from the DPJ, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party boycotted a plenary session of Japan's parliament to protest a move by the ruling coalition to "ram through" a resolution to approve the dispatch of SDF troops.
		And on February 6, the Japanese branch of the prestigious PEN club, an international association of writers, issued a statement saying that the dispatch violated article 9 of the constitution and urged the government to withdraw the troops.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FB26Dh04.html (1340 words)

	CNN.com - Japanese troops prepare for Iraq - Dec. 11, 2003
		Opponents of the troop dispatch are concerned that owing to the security situation in Iraq, Japanese forces may be drawn into combat.
		No Japanese soldier has fired a shot in combat or been killed in an overseas mission since World War II despite roles in international peacekeeping missions, such as in East Timor, which were made possible by a 1992 law.
		Additionally, the troops would be equipped with the heaviest armaments yet taken on a Japanese overseas mission, including anti-tank rocket launchers and recoilless guns to protect against suicide bombers in Iraq, according to the reports.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/12/11/japan.troops (861 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Japanese leader under fire over troops for Iraq
		Japan's main opposition leader yesterday called for the prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, to resign during a heated parliamentary debate on the deployment of Japanese ground troops to Iraq.
		According to Japanese newspaper reports, by the end of March, about 1,000 soldiers, sailors and air force personnel could be in Iraq taking part in Japan's biggest overseas military deployment since the second world war.
		Despite opposition to the deployment among New Komeito MPs, the party leader, Takenori Kanzaki, is expected to signal approval at a meeting with Mr Koizumi later that day.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1128414,00.html (260 words)

	Japanese voters warm to 'popularity politics' \| csmonitor.com
		At the same time, restless Japanese voters appear for the first time to be moving their government, ruled for most of the postwar period by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) machine, closer to a "two party" system.
		The question of a deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq is politically sensitive - and has been put off until after the elections.
		Japanese politics under the LDP has been much the same for 48 years.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1107/p07s01-woap.htm (863 words)

	Japanese troops head for Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An advance unit of Japanese troops headed to the Iraq border from Kuwait Monday to pave the way for a humanitarian mission in the war-torn country, a US spokesman said.
		The Japanese ground troops who had arrived in Kuwait Saturday "left Camp Virginia this morning and are on their way to the Kuwait-Iraq border," Vic Harris, public affairs officer of US troops in the emirate, told AFP.
		Under the plan, troops will be sent to the southeastern Iraqi province of Muthanna to engage in non-combat operations such as providing medical services and water supplies, restoring war-damaged buildings and transporting material, but not weapons.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040119084218.pulfc2di.html (313 words)

	Japan's Iraq deployment gets little airtime at home \| csmonitor.com
		Koizumi presses his Iraq case, the Defense Agency is working to mute media coverage of the deployment by asking Japanese journalists to leave Iraq.
		Japanese journalists are growing increasingly committed to sourcing their own work and recognizing the right to freedom of speech, she says.
		Koizumi last year pushed hard for the troop dispatch as part of his campaign to raise Japan's military profile internationally, despite a limited mandate for the move and questions over whether it involves Japan in an illegal occupation that breaches the country's war-renouncing constitution.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0120/p08s01-woap.html (1018 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japan is desperate to join the invasion in Iraq and there is no hiding in Tokyo's ambition to become part of a new axis of 'non-evils' that the Japanese leadership sees as the driving force in an uncertain world of the near future.
		Replying to the queries of the worried wife about the areas in Iraq where fighting was going on and where not, the prime minister simply replied that she couldn't expect him to answer that question.
		The proposal no doubt came as a horror to the Japanese officials and they are now saying that it might take a little longer to decide the location for troops deployment, and also to identify what specific duties Japanese soldiers are supposed to perform.
	www.thedailystar.net /2003/08/02/d30802020422.htm (1271 words)

	PeaceNews #2454: Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The deployment of Japanese troops in Iraq, which began in January and is the first such operation since the second world war, continues to attract opposition from the majority of Japanese people.
		Many view the sending of troops to Iraq as a violation of the country's post-war constitution, which renounced war forever; and though the soldiers are serving in a purely "humanitarian" capacity, there are fears that they could be drawn into armed conflict.
		Surveys suggest that at least two thirds of the Japanese population are opposed to the SDF deployment to Iraq.
	www.peacenews.info /issues/2454/2454051.html (234 words)

	CNN.com - Japanese troops enter Iraq - Feb. 8, 2004
		The troops, most of them engineers, are part of a deployment slated to total about 800 troops in a humanitarian mission in southern Iraq.
		The Japanese troops in Iraq will be armed with pistols, rifles, machine guns and anti-tank guns to use in self defense only.
		The decision by the government of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to deploy the troops despite widespread opposition reflects a shift in the government's attitude since the 1991 Gulf War, when Tokyo shouldered a portion of the financial burden but sent no soldiers.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/02/08/sprj.nirq.japan.ap (416 words)

	My Way - News
		There were two late-night explosions near the Defense Ministry in Tokyo this week, which police said could have been carried out in a protest against the dispatch of Japanese troops to Iraq.
		Nudged by the United States, Japan plans to send up to 600 ground troops to Iraq as part of a total deployment of around 1,000 military personnel.
		The group said it was resorting to violence to prevent the deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq, Kyodo said.
	news.myway.com /top/article/id/386473\|top\|02-20-2004::12:07\|reuters.html (333 words)

	ipedia.com: Japan Self-Defence Forces Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Japanese military is severely limited by Article 9 of the Japanese constitution that renounces force as a means of settling international disputes and prohibits the creation of an army, navy, and air force.
		As a reflection of the forces' role, the Japanese term 軍 ("gun"), referring to a military force, and the English terms "military", "army", "navy", and "air force" are never used in official references to the JSDF.
		The first overseas deployment of the Japanese military under UN since World War II occurred in 1992.
	www.ipedia.com /japan_self_defence_forces.html (638 words)

	Why War? Japanese Press Questions Troop Dispatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On the day that an advance contingent of Japanese troops arrived in Kuwait, editorials ask whether the government is going about boosting the country's international presence in the right way.
		The paper points out that Iraq differs greatly from places such as East Timor, where Japanese troops are currently carrying out peacekeeping duties under the auspices of the UN.
		It urges the government to revise the guidelines issued to troops on the use of weapons, saying that the current guidelines do not take into account the especially dangerous conditions Japanese troops are likely to face in Iraq.
	www.why-war.com /news/read.php?id=3818&printme (679 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Japanese government says the troops are being sent to Iraq to help its people rebuild the country.
		Japanese news reports said a leftist group claimed responsibility, saying it opposes deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq.
		Another 500 soldiers are to be deployed by late March, backed up by 400 naval and air force personnel in the area.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/ew/CE24A119-F4F1-489F-9DDE6878869AC572.html (255 words)

	SOUTH KOREA: Public Pressure Grows Against Troop Deployment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SEOUL, Jun 23 (IPS) - Although the government announced that its decision to deploy 3,000 troops to Iraq is unlikely to be swayed by the beheading of a South Korean hostage, mounting public protests, however, could force it to cancel the deployment.
		In Tokyo, public scepticism seems to be growing daily over the deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq as violence there surges, in some cases involving Japanese.
		When the deployment of the 3,000 troops is complete, South Korea will be biggest coalition partner in Iraq after the United States and Britain.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=24329 (1052 words)

	The Agonist: Japan rethinks Iraq deployment
		via Taipei Times and Atrios : The deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq yesterday appeared likely to be delayed after the defense minister said it would be "difficult" to go ahead this year because of the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad.
		Shigeru Ishiba, the director general of the Defense Agency, said late Wednesday the truck bombing had shown Japan's planned humanitarian mission would carry real dangers.
		He said this month's planned reconnaissance mission for the deployment -- the first time since World War II that Japanese troops would arrive in an active war zone -- would probably be delayed.
	www.agonist.org /archives/007363.html (108 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		A father of one of the troops, who declined to be named, summed up his feelings: "I hope they will be safe, we are thinking of them." Despite his show of support for the troops, the man seemed uncertain about the wisdom of sending them.
		Analyzing the troop deployment from a different perspective, Yamauchi comments: "You have to understand the GSDF dispatch in the context of Japanese nationalism.
		Under the constitution, dispatching Japanese troops to a war zone is illegal.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FA17Dh04.html (1104 words)

	IslamiCity.com - Communications & Services
		No doubt, the loud-voiced Buddhists and pacifists were happy to vote in favor of a bill that in all account counters the teachings of Buddha but helped Koizumi to save his face for the time being by not letting down his friends at the hour of their need.
		During the post World War II period the first Japanese deployment of troops overseas was in Mozambique, where self-defense forces personnel were sent to help the country solve its internal conflicts.
		The new law also specifies that the Japanese self defense forces personnel are to be deployed only in non-combat zones in Iraq and initially they will be involved only in humanitarian and reconstruction work rather than providing logistic support to US troops.
	www.islamicity.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=DS0308-2055 (1497 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide
		Japan will send the troops, as many as four naval vessels and eight transport aircraft to the Middle East nation for as long as a year, the government said in a release.
		While troops will be armed for protection they won't engage in combat and the deployment won't violate Article 9 of Japan's Constitution renouncing the right to wage war, he said.
		Japan's decision to send troops to Iraq comes after the world's second-biggest economy in October pledged $1.5 billion in grants next fiscal year to help rebuild that country, which is the world's second-largest holder of oil reserves.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=anW5.u5O7RvY&refer=top_world_news (744 words)

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