TOKYO, July 29 (UPI) -- Japanese air support members will end their mission in Iraq at the end of the year because of parliamentary opposition to the conflict there.

Citing the Japanese daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun, the Iranian Press TV said the Japanese Parliament will probably end its backing of support missions out of Kuwait at the end of the year. The Japanese mission there expires in July 2009.

The move follows an earlier decision to suspend non-military support for the U.S.-led effort in Afghanistan.

The Japanese deployment in Iraq was its first since World War II. Its mission was to support non-combat and humanitarian efforts from the Ali al-Salem Air Base in western Kuwait.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi removed all Japanese troops from Iraq in 2006.

The Japanese air force provided logistics support and personnel transport from Kuwait to southern Iraq starting in 2004.