TOKYO - The Japanese government on Friday approved sending a senior Ground Self-Defense Force officer to serve as chief of staff of the military component of a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, the highest-ranking post ever held by a Japanese deployed to U.N. peacekeeping operations.
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