The Liberal Democratic Party reprimanded three veteran members Thursday for not participating in a Diet vote endorsing the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces troops to Iraq.
They are Koichi Kato, Makoto Koga and Shizuka Kamei. Kato and Koga are former LDP secretaries general, while Kamei is a former party policy chief.
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