JAPANESE SOLDIERS WAVE FROM BUS TO BOARD GOVERNMENT PLANE UPON DEPARTURE FOR IRAQ IN CHITOSE ON NORTHERN ISLAND OF HOKKAIDO, JAPAN. Japanese ground force soldiers headed for Iraq wave from a bus taking them to board a government plane from Chitose on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan, February 3, 2004. The first of Japan's main army contingent left on Tuesday on the country's first military mission to a de facto war zone since World War Two, amid a parliamentary boycott over the dispatch. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa