Japan should consider having the Self-Defense Forces join a multinational force in Iraq if such a force is created under a U.S.-proposed U.N. resolution, a top official of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Sunday.
"Although it is called a multinational force, it is designed to maintain peace and stabilize security," LDP Secretary General Shinzo Abe said on a TV Asahi program. "The SDF will not use force, but there must be something it can do."
A senior leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the largest opposition force, did not rule out Abe's idea during an appearance on a different TV program.