Japan's Troops Proceed in Iraq Without Shot Fired
vehicles are so spotless that they appear to have just rolled out of a Tokyo car showroom into this crumbling Shiite Muslim town on the Euphrates. They lack the dents and dirt of other nations’ vehicles. Perhaps that is because of the Japanese troops’ attention to maintenance or perhaps, as the Iraqis here say, their increasing tendency to stay inside their base with the violence rising outside. Full Story