The Irish Times view on the G7 and nuclear weapons


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Keiko Ogura , a survivor or "hibakusha" of the 1945 atomic bombing, meets with members of the media after briefly speaking with leaders at the G7 Summit Leaders' Meeting, at the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima on Friday (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida, this weekend’s host in his Hiroshima constituency to the Group of Seven summit of western economic powers, lost several members of his family in August 1945 when the atomic bomb fell on the city. By year-end 140,000 had died. Yesterday, G7 leaders visited the city’ s memorial. Kishida has made a...