Japan plans to call on the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven countries to visit facilities related to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to reinvigorate efforts toward nuclear disarmament when they visit the city for a ministerial meeting next April.
According to officials, the government will urge these top diplomats to leave flowers in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, while planning to offer opportunities for them to listen to the stories of bomb survivors.
Of the G-7 nations, the United States, Britain and France are nuclear weapons states and their current leaders and foreign ministers have yet to visit Hiroshima, while the leaders or foreign ministers of Canada, Germany and Italy have laid flowers at the park and visited the museum.