Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on Wednesday inspected a site from which land mines are being removed in Huambo, about 500 km southeast of Luanda, Angola's capital.
Accompanied by Angolan Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo de Miranda, Kawaguchi inspected the site where the Halo Trust, a British-led nongovernmental organization, is conducting the removal.
The former Portuguese colony, with a population of 12 million, is said to have 15 million land mines.