Around 70 Japanese Have Volunteered To Fight For UN

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    https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...-volunteered-fight-ukraine-report-2022-03-02/

    TOKYO, March 2 (Reuters) - Several dozen Japanese men have answered a Ukrainian call for foreign volunteers to fight Russia's invasion, according to a media report on Wednesday.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Sunday for the formation of an "international legion," prompting dozens from the United States and Canada to volunteer.

    As of Tuesday, 70 Japanese men - including 50 former members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and two veterans of the French Foreign Legion - had applied to be volunteers, the Mainichi Shimbun daily said, quoting a Tokyo company handling the volunteers.