RUN AWAY! Japan out of Iraq by early 2006

[Taro Toporific]

I never meet a Japanese person who thought Japan should be in Iraq to begin with.
. . . . . . Japan may pull troops out of Iraq in early 2006
TOKYO - Yahoo! News- AFP, Thu, Sep 29, 2005 ---Japan is currently studying a plan to pull its 600 troops out of southern
Iraq in the first half of next year,...Japan had begun looking at the withdrawal of the force, which does reconstruction work in the southern city of Samawa, because a new Iraqi government was likely to be formed by the end of the year....more...

[Captain Japan]

Kyuma admits Tokyo backed Iraq attack
Japan Times

In an embarrassing overnight flip-flop, Defense Agency chief Fumio Kyuma withdrew Friday his previous remarks that the government did not officially support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but that former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi did so only in a private capacity....more...

Kyuma-san, you fool! That one is for Yasukuni visits!