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Byline: Bob Kemper
WASHINGTON _ President Bush expressed unqualified support for the tough-medicine reforms Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has proposed for his nation's ailing economy even though some of those measures could slow Japan's economic growth.
"I have no reservations about the economic reform agenda that the prime minister is advancing," Bush said at Camp David after the two emerged from their first personal meeting.
In return, Koizumi said he was "not disappointed" that Bush rejected the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to curb emission of greenhouse gases, on which Japan had taken the lead. About a week ago, Koizumi declared Bush's action "truly deplorable."
Meeting for nearly two…