TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force personnel participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan have been involved in about 50 traffic accidents since the start of their deployment in 2012, the Defense Ministry said Monday.
The ministry released the figures for the first time following an accident the same day in the capital Juba, in which a vehicle carrying members of the GSDF and a civilian on a motorcycle collided.
The local man suffered fractures, while none of the Japanese troops were hurt, according to the ministry.
A Defense Ministry official said the accident tally has been released now because of "heightened public interest in the SDF's activities in South Sudan and the fact that the civilian sustained fractures."
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