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JSDF Overseas Dispatches
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<p>These are overseas dispatches (Heisei -JSDF deployments outside of Japan) of the <a href="/facts/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces/teNPuETA">Japan Self-Defense Forces</a> (JSDF). Japan sought active international cooperation beyond the framework of previous activities due to the alleviation of tensions after the end of the <a href="/facts/Cold_War/spJdJQ3q">Cold War</a> in 1989 and the <a href="/facts/Gulf_War/6LdLnGdo">Gulf War</a> that broke out at the beginning of 1991. This began the dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces in the <a href="/facts/Persian_Gulf/W78AfnC1">Persian Gulf</a>. </p>