Japan had not changed

Vice President Dick Cheney reassure ally Japan on Wednesday about U.S. strategy on Iraq despite growing doubts at home and abroad, and pledged to coordinate policies on North Korea's nuclear arms programs.
Cheney's visit to Tokyo comes just weeks after Japan's defense minister said that starting the Iraq war was a mistake and its foreign minister called the U.S. occupation strategy "immature."
The remarks forced Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who Cheney will meet later on Wednesday, to scurry to assure Washington that Tokyo's backing for U.S. policy in Iraq had not changed.