The government is arranging for Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to visit Hiroshima when he comes to Japan in early November for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to a source knowledgeable about the bilateral relationship.

Abe hopes to reach an agreement with Nazarbayev to boost cooperation on nuclear disarmament, a field important to the Kazakh leader, the source said Tuesday.

Abe sounded out Nazarbayev about visiting Japan, including the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima this year when they met last week on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou, China.