Article: US redeployments afoot in Asia; Ending his trip Tuesday to Korea and Japan - both wavering on troops for Iraq - Rumsfeld outlined US troop shifts.(WORLD)

Article: POLITICS-JAPAN: IRAQ WAR SIGNALS CHANGE IN ROLE OF ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Analysts here say the Iraq war represents a watershed in Japan's postwar diplomacy ... is no doubt that the Iraq war has affected Japanese ... diplomacy dramatically. Japan is questioning the ... Bush in reference to Japan and Iraq is awkward and embarrassing ...

Article: POLITICS-JAPAN: IRAQ WAR SIGNALS CHANGE IN ROLE OF ...
Interpress Service;  January 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Analysts here say the Iraq war represents a watershed in Japan's postwar diplomacy ... is no doubt that the Iraq war has affected Japanese ... diplomacy dramatically. Japan is questioning the ... Bush in reference to Japan and Iraq is awkward and embarrassing ...

Article: Japan-Iraq Relations: The Perception Gap and Its ...
Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ);  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...JAPAN'S DIPLOMATIC POLICY TOWARD Iraq is only a dependent variable within ... the experience of this period that Japan and Iraq established their first impressions ... the actual relationship between Japan and Iraq has changed from the 1970s until ...

Article: US, Japan, & Iraq.(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin;  July 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... govern-ments handling of Iraq and 55 percent in Japan dislike their governments handling of Iraq. In January 2004, Japanese ... About four in 10 in both Japan and the US say they approve of their own countrys Iraq policies. "In order to ...

Article: AS GEN Japan Iraq Opposition
AP Worldstream;  December 17, 2003 ;     633 words ... ... to be dispatched to Iraq early next year face ... probability of casualties, Japan's top opposition ... to send troops to Iraq next year to aid the ... reconstruction effort, saying Japan is seriously underestimating ... raised criticism in Japan, where many fear ... into the fighting in Iraq ...

Article: Japan: Iraq still too unstable to send in troops: ...
Charleston Gazette;  November 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq - Japan put off a decision Thursday ... delayed until next year. Japan had hoped to send troops to Iraq to help rebuild the country ... Fukuda backed off, saying Iraq is still too unstable. "Japan has said it wants to think ...

Article: AS GEN Japan Iraq
AP Worldstream;  July 4, 2003 ;     399 words ... ... opposition Democratic Party of Japan submitted a revised bill Wednesday, providing for Japan to help in Iraq without dispatching the military ... have U.N. approval to land in Iraq, Japan's Air Self-Defense Forces spokesman ...