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Japan's Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada attends a ceremony for the departure of two Japanese destroyers at the base in Kure, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, on March 14, 2009. Two Janpanese destroyers departed Saturday from their base in Kure, on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia, marking Japan's first overseas policing action under the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) law. The dispatch of the warships was ordered by Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada on Friday under the maritime policing action provision of the SDF Law. (Xinhua/Qian Zheng)
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