The Metropolitan Police Department’s band is scheduled to leave Japan Sept. 25 to participate in police band contests to be held in France and Spain.
The MPD said its musicians would be performing abroad for the first time since the band was inaugurated in 1948. The group consists of 66 members under band leader Hisatoshi Muta. Sixteen of them are female guards who will be performing drill routines.
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