HAKONE, Kanagawa Pref. -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi agreed Saturday with his British counterpart, Tony Blair, that there were justifiable grounds to launch the war against Iraq.
Koizumi's remark was apparently an effort to boost the embattled Blair, who is being accused in Britain of cooking up a security report that was cited as the chief reason for Britain going to war with Iraq.
Koizumi cited a series of United Nations resolutions as justifiable reasons for Japan supporting the war.