Sixty-one percent of respondents to a Kyodo News poll oppose the government's decision to extend the Self-Defense Forces troops' mission in Iraq, according to the results released Friday.
Some 32.8 percent of respondents backed the one-year extension to the humanitarian aid mission.
The telephone survey of 1,009 adults in randomly selected households was conducted from Thursday night to Friday. The government announced the extension earlier Thursday.
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