JUBA (Reuters) - The last Japanese troops withdrew from a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan on Thursday, marking the end of a controversial push by the Japanese prime minister to expand his military's overseas role.
The 40 men and women, all that remained of Japan's 350-strong military contingent, left from South Sudan's capital of Juba, where they have been based for the past five years as they helped build infrastructure in the war-torn country.
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