Japan is making arrangements to hold a foreign ministerial meeting of the Group of Seven countries in Hiroshima before the country hosts the G-7 leaders' summit next year, a government source said Wednesday.
By choosing Hiroshima, which suffered a U.S. atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, as the venue for the G-7 foreign ministerial talks, Japan hopes to rally international support for nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, the source said.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced earlier this month that the G-7 summit will be held in an area of central Japan close to a grand Shinto shrine.