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Japanese air force personnel arrive to help with humanitarian mission in Iraq

(23 Jan 2004) SHOTLIST 1. Japanese government plane carrying personnel from Japan's Air Self-Defence Force landing at Abdullah Al Mubarak airbase 2. Various of plane taxiing 3. Tail of plane with Japanese flag 4. Steps being moved towards plane 5. Various of welcoming delegation including Japanese officials and military officers waiting on tarmac 6. Air Self-Defence Force personnel emerging from aircraft and walking down steps 7. Various of troops saluting and shaking hands with waiting officials 8. Wide shot plane with last of troops walking down steps 9. Troops seated inside buses preparing to leave for Ali Al Salem airbase - pans STORYLINE A Japanese government airplane arrived at a Kuwaiti air base on Friday, carrying 104 Japanese air force personnel on a controversial mission to support relief and reconstruction efforts in southern Iraq. The pilots, maintenance personnel and administrative staff, wearing fatigues and light green caps, arrived at Abdullah Al Mubarak airbase about 0800 local time (0500 GMT). They boarded three buses and were to be driven to another Kuwait airbase, Ali Al Salem, where they will be based for three months to assist with transporting relief supplies and reconstruction equipment to Iraq. An advance team of the Japanese Self-Defence Forces arrived in Kuwait last week and on Monday moved to Samawah in southern Iraq. Japan is committing one-thousand military personnel to the operation, which will put its troops in a conflict zone for the first time since World War II. It plans to bring three C-130 transport planes to airlift supplies for its mission; those aircraft are expected to leave next week. There is widespread opposition to the mission in Japan, where the nation's World War II defeat and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are considered horrifying reminders of the devastation of war. Thursday's departure of the air personnel, the main air force detachment heading to Iraq, drew about 75 protesters outside Komaki Air Base, near the central Japanese city of Nagoya. Japan's military has contributed small contingents of noncombatant troops to UN peacekeeping missions for a decade, but only to countries where fighting had subsided. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...