PANGA (Indonesia): The arrival of camouflage-clad Japanese troops in this Indonesian town on the west coast of Sumatra at the weekend was a cause for celebration, not fear.
Men used poles to knock coconuts from tall palm trees, hacking them open and offering the sweet juice to a Japan Ground Self-Defence Force team disembarking from an army helicopter, bearing measles vaccines and oral vitamin doses.
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