TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan assured the visiting Iraqi prime minister on Monday it would keep helping his country to rebuild, as Iraqis back home staged a big anti-U.S. protest in the city of Najaf on the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.
"There is no change in our policy to actively help with the reconstruction of Iraq through official development assistance and activities of the Self-Defence Forces," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was quoted as telling Nuri al-Maliki.
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