The SDF director David Liddell said those results, together with findings from similar schemes in Europe, meant there was now "overwhelming" evidence in favour of having such a project.

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano stated that the government would send Self-Defense Force (SDF) helicopters to the Fukushima plant to put out the fire that was causing the smoke.

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SDF, should it be to increase its independence from the United States, to help America, or to do a little of each?

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