Iraq can learn from Japan's postwar reconstruction, Iraq's speaker of the National Assembly told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo on Friday.
Hajim al-Hasani's meeting was part of the first foreign visit made by a delegation from the new Iraqi legislature.
"The purpose of our visit to Japan is, first of all, to show our appreciation and thanks to (the) Japanese people and the Japanese government," the speaker told reporters after meeting Koizumi at the Prime Minister's Official Residence.