Japan gov't OKs bill for foreigners-only SDF evacuation missions

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.The current law on SDF operations restricts the rescue of foreign individuals such as spouses and local workers for Japanese agencies to those accompanying Japanese citizens, but the revised legislation will cover cases involving foreign evacuees only.The law revision "will enable swift and flexible implementation of evacuation missions…READ FULL ARTICLE