[bonesmccoy]

You are way off in your analysis.

The Japanese PM was responding to the President's request to relieve US troops in Iraq. Japan's parliament has for the first time in 60 years approved deployment of ground forces to a foreign country in support of the coalition.

The pushing in the Diet was the Japanese leftists (socialists and isolationists) getting mad at the Japanese conservatives for approving the support for the Bush Admin policy.

[Calpernia]

Asking if Japan blocked an infrastructure access is an analysis?

[mabelkitty]

That's what I said. I was in no connecting it to this thread.