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PEACEKEEPING 2

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 17, 2019
Japan extends SDF dispatch to U.N. peacekeeping mission HQ in South Sudan
Japan decided Friday to extend by another year, through May 31, 2020, the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces personnel to the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2018
Japan to provide peacekeeper training for ASEAN nations in bid to counter China's growing presence
Japan will help train personnel in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations taking part in U.N. peacekeeping operations, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 12, 2018
Is the Cruz Report the end of peacekeeping for Japan?
A report's call for more proactive and pre-emptive actions by peacekeepers collides with legal limitations on the SDF's use of force.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 2, 2018
Japan Times 1918: Teacher's house stoned after racial epithet
Twenty-three students of the Odate Middle School in Akita Prefecture in northwestern Japan attacked the house of Mr. Kishida, instructor of natural history in the school, twice on the night of June 2, throwing stones and destroying the windows and paper slides of the house.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 4, 2018
Cambodia memorial service held for cop killed in Japan's first U.N. peacekeeping mission
A memorial service was held Friday for a Japanese police officer who was killed in northwestern Cambodia during a U.N. peacekeeping operation in 1993.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 23, 2018
Loud explosions again rock northern Mali's Timbuktu near U.N. peacekeeper bases
Several loud explosions rocked the northern Mali city of Timbuktu on Sunday near military bases where one U.N peacekeeper was killed and seven French troops were wounded last weekend by Islamist militants, a resident and a U.N. source said.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 21, 2017
Japan's Kono reaffirms commitment to peacekeeping at U.N.
Japan will continue to make a positive contribution to U.N. peacekeeping efforts following its withdrawal of troops from a mission in South Sudan, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Wednesday in New York.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 6, 2017
Lawyers attempt to fill in the gaps in the GSDF's heavily redacted South Sudan PKO logs
Lawyers poring over the activity logs that led to the defense minister's exit suspect that redactions point to illegal activities.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2017
China likely to surpass Japan as second-largest contributor to U.N. budget in 2019
Beginning in 2019, China is expected to overtake Japan and become the second-largest contributor to the United Nationsu2019 general budget.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 19, 2017
Inada faces flak over renewed claims of SDF-related cover-up
The Defense Ministry was hit again Wednesday by another apparent data cover-up scandal involving Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, prompting opposition lawmakers to further step up their calls for her immediate resignation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 3, 2017
Japan Times 1967: 'New "James Bond" film drawing huge crowds'
Despite the unfavorable publicity it received during its filming in Japan last year, Eon Films' "You Only Live Twice," the latest of the "James Bond" series, is drawing the biggest crowds since "Thunderball," another Bond released in December 1965
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 19, 2017
Experts question wisdom, achievements of SDF South Sudan peacekeeping mission
With the Ground Self-Defense Force troops in South Sudan scheduled to arrive back in Japan on May 27, experts have called for the government to thoroughly review Japan's peacekeeping mission there amid debate over whether it was in line with the nation's principle of only sending troops to places with an ongoing cease-fire.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2017
First batch of GSDF troops arrive home as Japan withdraws from South Sudan mission
The first contingent of Ground Self-Defense Force troops returned home on Wednesday from South Sudan as Japan ended its five-year participation in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the African country.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 18, 2017
U.N. credibility is at stake
The U.N. is strugging to reaffirm its raison d'etre as the vanguard of international peace and security.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 17, 2017
Abe will have a tough time getting bigger peacekeeping roles for Japan on U.N. missions
Fulfilling Prime Minister Shinzo Abeu2019s pledge to make Japan a u201cproactive contributor to peaceu201d may not be so easy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2017
Defense chief orders SDF pullout from South Sudan
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada on Friday ordered the Self-Defense Forces to begin their withdrawal from South Sudan, where they were deployed for five years as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 20, 2017
What next for Japan's peacekeepers after withdrawal from South Sudan?
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced that Japan will end its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in May and withdraw the Ground Self-Defense Force's engineering troops there. The troops have been deployed to the northeast African country for the last five years as part of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS).
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 17, 2017
Probe into GSDF peacekeeping logs to focus on Defense Ministry heavyweights
A watchdog led by the Defense Ministry will investigate whether the ministry's upper echelons systematically concealed records about conditions faced by Ground Self-Defense Force peacekeepers stationed in South Sudan, a source said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2017
South Sudan mission and semantics
The government shouldn't downplay the security situation in South Sudan to justify the deployment of SDF troops there.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 11, 2017
U.N. agency calls war-stricken South Sudan biggest refugee crisis in Africa
More than 1.5 million people have been forced to leave South Sudan as intense fighting spreads, making it Africa's largest refugee crisis, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

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