President Biden will pay “respects” to the 140,000 killed by America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima but will not offer an apology as he visits the city for the G7 summit.
Biden will join other G7 leaders, including Rishi Sunak, on a visit to the famous Peace Park and museum which commemorate the world’s first atomic bombing. They will be led by the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, MP for a Hiroshima constituency and whose family originally came from the city.
But according to the president’s aides, he will offer no apology, or comment on the morality of the bombing. “The president won’t be making a statement at the peace memorial park,” the US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said. “This is him as one
