Thursday, July 31, 2008Washington’s ambassador to Tokyo urged Japan on Tuesday to continue its support missions for U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to embassy press officer David Marks.
Ambassador Thomas Schieffer’s call followed Japanese media reports that Japan would, by the end of the year, bring home its roughly 200 air force personnel, now airlifting supplies from Kuwait to Iraq.
Japan’s Kyodo News quoted unnamed sources as saying that the nation’s Air Self-Defense Forces mission will come to a close by the end of this year when the current U.N. resolution authorizing deployment of multinational forces there expires.
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