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**Japan Extends Troop Deployment
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“It is Japan’s responsibility to help Iraqis rebuild their nation,” Mr Koizumi told a news conference in Tokyo. Japan had sent peacekeepers to Cambodia and East Timor but its 550 troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa are the first it has deployed since 1945 to a country where there is active fighting.
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Japan has extended its troop deployment to Iraq for another year despite public unease about the mission which broke the country’s post-World War II taboo against using its military in an overseas war zone.
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“It is Japan’s responsibility to help Iraqis rebuild their nation,” Mr Koizumi told a news conference in Tokyo. Japan had sent peacekeepers to Cambodia and East Timor but its 550 troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa are the first it has deployed since 1945 to a country where there is active fighting.