The Ground Self-Defense Force held basic protective and survival drills Thursday for Japanese reporters planning to cover the GSDF deployment in Iraq.
More than 100 reporters joined the four-hour-long special exercise at the Self-Defense Forces' Asaka drill site on the Tokyo-Saitama border.
The main part of the drills took the form of a field simulation, starting with an attack on a bus carrying reporters.
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