Biden weighs Nagasaki visit during Hiroshima G-7 in May: sources

Trip would be first by sitting U.S. leader to city hit by second WWII atomic bomb

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets U.S. President Joe Biden in Cambodia on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit on Nov. 13. (Japan Cabinet Public Affairs Office Handout via Kyodo)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- U.S. President Joe Biden is considering a trip to Nagasaki with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida next May, when he will attend the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Nikkei has learned. If the trip goes ahead, it will be the first by a sitting U.S. president to Nagasaki, the other city the U.S. attacked with an atomic bomb during World War II.

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