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Bush and Koizumi.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Sasaki Takeshi
That five Japanese citizens* were taken hostage by armed militants in Iraq and the withdrawal of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) was brought forth as a condition for their release proved a shock to the Koizumi Cabinet. The five hostages were released unharmed and the Koizumi leadership, to its good fortune, came out of the crisis with political gains. However, due to the continued worsening of security in Iraq, the debate regarding the dispatch of the SDF troops has not diminished but, on the contrary, it is just now becoming a political issue, at the very moment that the ...
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