More Japanese now support the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces to Iraq than oppose the move, despite a fall in the approval rate for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet, according to a Kyodo News survey conducted Friday and Saturday.
The results of the survey show an increase in the number of people who approve of the current situation now that the government has started sending SDF troops to Iraq.
The survey, which questioned 1,473 eligible voters with 1,015, or 68.9 percent, responding, showed that 48.3 percent support the SDF dispatch, up 5.5 percentage points from the previous survey in mid-January, while those opposing it stood at 45.1 percent, down 6.5 points.