The Japan External Trade Organization has canceled plans to participate in an international trade fair to start in Baghdad on Thursday, as a result of last month's terrorist attacks in the United States, officials said Friday.
The fair is one of the leading trade expositions in the Middle East and JETRO had planned to open a booth for the first time in 12 years in response to a request Iraq made around June.
The quasigovernmental organization decided to cancel because many Japanese companies have come to regard Iraq as risky since the Sept. 11 attacks and have also canceled participation in the fair.