"The Reality of the Hidden "Battlefields" of the SDF Overseas Dispatch" Yuji Fuse Price: ¥1039 #YujiFuse #Yuji_Fuse #Book #Society/Politics/Military The fields where the Self-Defense Forces have been active were actually "battlefields"!? Recommended by Isoko Mochizuki and Kenji Isezaki! It has been exactly 30 years since the International Peace Cooperation Law (PKO Law), which stipulates the overseas dispatch of the SDF, was enacted and enforced in 1992. During this time, Japan has dispatched a total of over 60,000 SDF personnel on over 40 overseas missions. However, it is difficult to say that sufficient information has been disclosed regarding the actual situation and danger of these activities. Rather, the government has repeatedly made intentional lies and concealments. This book thoroughly investigates the "real" of the SDF's overseas dispatch to date, organizing the problems so far. And it is a masterpiece that also proposes how overseas dispatch should be in the future. What emerged from internal documents and the testimonies of SDF personnel was the shocking fact that the SDF was repeatedly sent to "battlefields" where bullets flew, and they were prepared to die. An amazing exposé that uncovers the "inconvenient truth" that this country has hidden! 《Recommendation》 Information that is inconvenient for the state is hidden and not made known to the public. The "tragedy" of young Russian soldiers who learned the truth for the first time on the battlefields of Ukraine is by no means someone else's problem. -- Isoko Mochizuki (Newspaper Reporter) It is the SDF personnel sent to the "battlefields" who have risked their lives to protect Article 9 of the Constitution. -- Kenji Isezaki (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) 《Contents》 Preface: Why We Started Verifying Overseas Dispatch Chapter 1: South Sudan PKO Interview 1: Interview with Mr. Osamu Nakara, Commander of the 10th South Sudan Dispatch Engineering Unit Chapter 2: Iraq Dispatch Chapter 3: Cambodia PKO Interview 2: Interview with Mr. Takashi Watanabe, Commander of the 1st Cambodia Dispatch Engineering Battalion Chapter 4: East Timor PKO Rwanda Refugee Relief Golan Heights PKO Interview 3: Interview with Mr. Fumihiro Kayanuma, Commander of the 34th Golan Heights Dispatch Transport Unit Chapter 5: Considering the Future of Overseas Dispatch Interview 4: Interview with Mr. Koji Todo, Chief Instructor of the UN PKO Support Unit Early Deployment Project (2019, 2nd)