Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force members take part in an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji training field in Gotemba, Japan August 23, 2018. Picture taken August 23, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO (Reuters) - As a Japanese military recruiter sat patiently at a booth outside a supermarket in northern Tokyo one recent weekend, she welcomed a rare visitor, high school student Kazuaki Matsumura.
But Matsumura, who plans to go to university, wasn't there to sign up. He was just curious.
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