ANKARA Japan is sending two military planes to East Africa for a possible operation to evacuate its nationals from the Middle East amid mounting hostilities between Iran and Israel, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Thursday. The two C-2 transport airplanes of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) airplanes with about 120 crew members will fly to an SDF base in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti and be on standby there, Tokyo-based Kyodo News reported. The decision was taken following a request