TOKYO -- On Friday, a C-130 evacuation plane dispatched by Japan's Self-Defense Forces took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, for neighboring Pakistan. It had just one Japanese evacuee aboard.
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A C-130 transport plane dispatched by Japan to the Kabul airport evacuated just one Japanese national Friday. © Kyodo
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