4 Iraq veterans in Japan commit suicide
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4 Iraq veterans in Japan commit suicide
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/03/10/news/soldiers.php
Agence France-Presse
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2006
TOKYO Four Japanese soldiers have killed themselves since returning from Iraq, possibly because of trauma from the war, a news report said Friday.
A Japanese Defense Agency spokeswoman confirmed the four deaths, but said that it was "difficult to identify the reasons for their suicides."
The Asahi Shimbun reported, however, that a number of Japanese troops were emotionally scarred by their experience in Iraq, the first Japanese mission since World War II to a country where fighting is under way.
One officer who killed himself last year was posted at a station that was attacked by rockets several times and a member of his unit was almost shot by accident by a U.S. soldier, the paper said.
During joint military training with the U.S. military after he left Iraq, the officer had said of American troops, "We will be killed if we are with them," according to the report.
Japan has 600 troops in a relatively safe southern Iraqi town of Samawa.
The troops, serving on a reconstruction mission, have had no casualties and have not fired their weapons. They are barred from combat by the pacifist Japanese Constitution that was imposed by the United States in 1947.
The Defense Agency said that its doctors care for soldiers' mental health before, during and after Iraq assignments.
With rotations, a total of 5,000 Japanese troops have done duty in Iraq since 2004.
A record high 94 members of the 240,000-strong Japanese military, known as the Self-Defense Forces killed themselves in the 12 months before March 2005.
Eighty-five have committed suicide in the 11 months since then.
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jap soldiers need comfort women to keep them going.
but US troops didn't allow them to do the iraqi women....
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As much as you don't want other people to call you a dog, you shouldn't call another country a dog. If you don't like a country, keep it to yourself.Originally posted by boy in blues:
jap dogs need comfort women to keep them going.
but US troops didn't allow them to do the iraqi women.... -
edited for clarity.Originally posted by CenturionMBT:As much as you don't want other people to call you a dog, you shouldn't call another country a dog. If you don't like a country, keep it to yourself.
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hahaha, i like this phrase.Originally posted by boy in blues:
jap soldiers need comfort women to keep them going.
but US troops didn't allow them to do the iraqi women....
We did nothing wrong to japan..ese but they DID. -
Its so sad that Ito used the death of these 4 Japanese soldiers to push his political agenda.
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japan do have the highest rate of suicides in the developed world after all
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they will be slapped for being such pussies when they meet their predecessors.
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japan v kaypo.........