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Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo
Narita, Japan, Jan. 21 Kyodo - An emergency medical team of Japan's Self-Defence Forces left Narita airport Thursday night for Haiti to help treat survivors of a deadly earthquake which devastated the Caribbean nation last week.
The roughly 110-member team headed by Col. Makoto Shirakawa, consisting of doctors and other personnel, left aboard an aircraft chartered from Japan Airlines Corp.
The SDF team is expected to join a group of Japanese medical professionals, including members of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, who have been …