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参考資料　27日の国務省定例会見におけるやりとり（応答者ケーシー副報道官）

QUESTION: Just staying in the region. On Japan, the cabinet was reshuffled today and what are your expectations for working with the new Abe government, especially with regards to the Anti-terrorism Special Measures Law?
MR. CASEY: Well, first of all, obviously this is an internal decision of the Japanese Government. We've had very successful and positive working relationship with Prime Minister Abe and his first government. We look forward to working with his new team, including the new Foreign Minister who, of course, has previously served in that capacity and certainly want to see us move forward in cooperation with Japan on the full range of issues in our relationship. That certainly includes counterterrorism. And as you know, we've greatly appreciated the support that Japan has provided in Iraq and elsewhere in terms of its financial contributions to reconstruction and development as well as the deployment of some of its forces and its resupply efforts. Obviously, though, any individual decisions in the future about the nature or extent of Japan's involvement in Iraq or elsewhere are going to be decisions that the government's going to have to make and make in consultation with the parliament. And so I'm certain we'll be continuing to discuss that and work with them. We, again, are grateful -- very grateful for the support Japan has provided in the past. We'd certainly like to see that support continue, but these are individual decisions for the Japanese Government and for other governments to make.
QUESTION: And just to follow up. If the opposition party does block the extension of the Special Measures Law, has the U.S. already started discussion as how to contain the impact of that and what other measures you might --
MR. CASEY: Well, again, I don't think I want to try and speculate on what the Japanese parliament might or might not decide. This is obviously an issue for debate in Japan. We look forward to seeing that debate conclude and Japan make its decisions about how it wishes to proceed. Certainly, we will be in discussion with all members of the coalition in Iraq as well as other interested countries to make sure that we're doing everything we can to help the Iraqis provide for the security needs of their country as well as help push the process of political reform and reconstruction as well. Yeah, let's go over here.