Is There a Japan-Iraq Strategic Partnership

In March 2007 the Japanese Foreign Ministry began speaking of a "long-term and strategic partnership" between Japan and Iraq. The terminology was new: Japan had previously described its policy in post-Saddam Iraq in terms of "reconstruction activities" but not as a "strategic partnership." What accounts for this shift in language? What does the new policy entail? What does it overlook?On July 19, 2006, the final elements of the Ground Self-Defense Forces (GSDF) mission rolled across the border between Iraq and Kuwait. The 2 1/2 year mission in Samawa ended without the deaths of any GSDF member on Iraqi soil - although it was indirectly related to the deaths of several Japanese civilians. As this watershed event was taking place, the future policies of the Japanese government remained shrouded in uncertainty. Was this the effective end of Japanese support to the post-Saddam Iraqi government? Or was it simply the beginning of a new phase

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