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TOKYO, July 18 (UPI) -- Japan, reacting to rising violence in Afghanistan, has decided against sending its Self-Defense Forces to help in that country's reconstruction.
Kyodo news service, quoting government officials and lawmakers Friday, reported a government team during its trip to Afghanistan found the security situation there is worsening.
The finding led many lawmakers in Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition to note that it would be difficult to get parliament to authorize an SDF mission, the report said.
The use of Japanese forces outside the country is strictly limited under the country's war-renouncing Constitution, Kyodo said.
The Fukuda regime had considered expanding the current law to allow the SDF mission, in addition to the existing refueling mission by the Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Indian Ocean, to support U.S.-led anti-terrorism operations in and near Afghanistan, the report said.
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