The top government spokesman said Monday that Japan plans to send a fact-finding team to Iraq to assess rebuilding the war-torn country.
There is already growing speculation that such a team may be dispatched this week.
The government wants to send a team to find ways to provide humanitarian aid to the war-torn country "as soon as possible," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters.
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