Japan finding it no easy job to play bigger role in U.N. mission

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be finding it not so easy to live up to his pledge to make Japan a "proactive contributor to peace," as the country ends its troops' participation in a U.N. peacekeeping operation in South Sudan and looks for other missions to join.The U.N. mission in South Sudan was the first test case for the Self-Defense Forces to play a bigger role in international peace-building efforts based on Japan's controversial security legislation, which loosened the constraints of the post-World War II pacifist Constitution.But the SDF members are leaving South Sudan without having…READ FULL ARTICLE