WASHINGTON – Japan is considering sending Self-Defense Force members to Afghanistan early next year to supply nongovernmental organizations with mine-removal equipment and help them remove land mines, government sources said Thursday.
Japan hopes to send fewer than 10 SDF members to serve in an individual capacity and not as a military unit, the sources said.
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