TOKYO: When John Kerry joins his fellow G7 foreign ministers for talks this weekend in Hiroshima, the city’s symbolism as the first ever target of an atomic attack will take centre stage.
Kerry will become the first ever US secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, obliterated by an American atomic bomb in 1945, with his trip seen as possibly paving the way for Barack Obama to become the first serving US president to journey to the now-thriving southwestern metropolis next month when he visits Japan for the G7 Summit.
The two-day Hiroshima meeting begins Sunday and is also be attended …read more
Source: theSun
