Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba met Wednesday with members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan’s leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received the Nobel Peace Prize last year.
During the meeting at the prime minister’s office, Ishiba is expected to acknowledge the group’s efforts toward creating a world free of nuclear weapons, with this year marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II.
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