Quit Iraq, say Japanese MPs

More members of Japan’s newly elected parliament believe Japanese troops should be withdrawn from Iraq when their mission expires in December than believe they should stay, a survey said today.

Of the 480 MPs who won seats in Parliament’s lower house in elections on Sunday, 41% said Japan should pull out its troops from Iraq, while 34% said the deployment should be extended, according to the survey by the nationwide newspaper Mainichi. The rest of the MPs did not specify an answer.