JSDF peacekeepers to leave South Sudan in May

摘要

The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) are set to end their five-year participation in a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan at the end of May, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters on 10 March after a meeting of Japan's national security council. Abe was quoted by broadcaster NHK as saying that the government in Tokyo would not send another JSDF contingent to the northeastern African country.