TOKYO - Japan's Cabinet approved Tuesday a bill that would facilitate future evacuation missions by the Self-Defense Forces targeting only foreign nationals during overseas crises, after Tokyo rescued just one citizen when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August.
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