TOKYO -- The Japanese Defense Ministry has released part of the Ground Self-Defense Force's activity logs during its mission in Iraq between 2004 and 2006, which are calling into question whether the troops fell within legal requirements to stay in "noncombat" zones.
The ministry on Monday disclosed entries from 435 different days totaling 14,929 pages. The documents were previously believed to have been destroyed, but were recently discovered to have been in the possession of a GSDF unit all along.
