Afghanistan, Japan sends military aircraft to transfer compatriots and local staff

Japan also sends a military plane to Afghanistan to take away from the country the compatriots who are still there and the local staff who worked with the Tokyo embassy in Kabul and other organizations. The government, reports the Kyodo agency, has announced that a plane of the Self-Defense Forces will be sent after Japanese diplomats were transferred to Dubai last week following the closure of the embassy in Kabul on August 15, the day of the surrender of the Afghan capital to the Taliban. In Afghanistan there are still some Japanese citizens who work for international organizations and dozens of Afghans who have collaborated with the embassy, ​​the International Cooperation Agency of Japan and other organizations in the country.