TOKYO -- Since Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in 2016, Fumio Kishida has urged other global leaders to come and see the site of humanity's first atomic bombing. Now as prime minister, he sees an opportunity in the Group of Seven summit in 2023.
"Recalling the visit by former President Obama to Hiroshima, Japan and the United States call on political leaders, youth and others to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki to raise and sustain awareness," the two countries said in a statement shortly before the first formal summit between Kishida and President Joe Biden on Friday.
