Responding to concerns over the use of depleted uranium rounds by the U.S. military during the Iraq war, the Defense Agency is equipping Ground Self-Defense Force troops in the country with hundreds of radiation dosimeters.
Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba stressed in a Diet session Wednesday that the dosimeters will "allow (the GSDF) to assess the danger" of radiation, if any.
But some experts and nongovernmental organizations have cast doubt on the effectiveness of the devices.