The Democratic Party of Japan decided Tuesday to oppose any dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to help reconstruct Iraq.
The move will likely keep the ruling and opposition camps at loggerheads for the remainder of the current Diet session.
The DPJ's position, finalized at the day's meeting of its shadow Cabinet, effectively rejects a government-proposed bill to send SDF troops to Iraq.
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