US President Joe Biden is unlikely to visit Nagasaki as he travels to the G7 summit in May, Kyodo News reports on April 6.
Biden will most likely not be able to visit Nagasaki when he travels to Japan for the G7 summit due to scheduling conflicts, disappointing Japanese citizens who were looking forward to his trip to the atomic bomb-hit city, diplomatic sources told the agency.
Biden would have been the first sitting US president to visit the city in southwestern Japan where the US dropped an atomic bomb in August 1945, during the waning days of World War II.
Meanwhile, Japan is continuing to host a visit by G7 leaders, including Biden, to the Hiroshima atomic bomb museum, the sources say. If the visit takes place, it will be the first time that the heads of the G7 visit the museum together.
Remember, in 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima in western Japan for the previous G7 summit in Japan. Biden served as vice president in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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