Japan will not back down from its plan to dispatch Self-Defense Forces troops to Iraq, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday.
His comments followed incidents in which gunshots were fired at the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad and a terrorist threat was made against Tokyo.
Fukuda told a regularly scheduled news conference that the government was still investigating the nature of the shots, which were fired early Tuesday morning.
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