Japanese demonstrators hold up a placard showing a picture of U.S. President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on his middle finger, along with his ministers, in protest against Japan's dispatchment of troops to Iraq outside the Defense Agency in Tokyo February 3, 2004. The first troops of a main Japanese army contingent left for Iraq on Tuesday with the public deeply divided over the nation's first military dispatch to what is effectively a war zone in nearly six decades. REUTERS/Eriko Sugita ES/WS