Twelfth lunar month 28) (��δ years, January 19, 2004, the Japanese Self-Defense Force stationed in Iraq.


Japan's support for the U.S. war on Iraq, the Koizumi government in 2003 approved the dispatch of about 550 ground troops to Iraq. Southern Iraq and in January 2004 began to dispatch Ground Self-Defense Force engaged in humanitarian missions. This is Japan since World War II, the first major overseas military missions.