Bush and Koizumi became close friends after Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. After this Koizumi began to transform Japanese foreign policy. He often felt that because of United States that Japan could be a target of terrorism themselves. Japan’s post World War II constitution prohibits them from any combat duty in international conflicts. But after the Sept. 11 attacks a law was enacted to allow Japan to provide logistical support to coalition forces in the U.S.-led anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan (NBC news, 2006). Then in 2003 Koizumi passed another law in which Japan could send about 600 troops to southern Iraq on a noncombat humanitarian mission.
