Staff writer
After nearly three months of pondering what it can do to help resolve the East Timor situation, Japan finally got off its backside and is sending manpower to the region.
The main contingent of a 150-member Air Self-Defense Force team will leave the Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture today to provide sleeping mats, cooking kits and other necessities for East Timorese refugees in neighboring West Timor.
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