The city is one of the high-skilled manufacturing cities. Hiroshima, one of the strategic points linking the country's Kyushu and the Kansai regions, serves as a hub with the flow of people and goods in the Chugoku region. The survivors convey their hopes for a nuclear-free world to new generations as they tearfully describe their post-bomb experiences in the seminars at the museum. The hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombs, work in the peace memorial museum and host visitors. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui heads the international Mayors for Peace organization for the promotion of peace. The local government and residents of the city, who want to promote the city at the international level, work to abolish nuclear weapons. The city, where the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum was built, was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament in 1949. With the laws enacted after the war, with the financial support of the central government, rebuilding activities gained momentum throughout the city. 6 and 9 in 1945, respectively, killing over 200,000 people. The US detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug.

Kishida represents Hiroshima, his family's hometown, as a deputy in the National Assembly.Ĭhoosing his hometown for the summit, Kishida wants to deliver a message of peace to the world, and aims to present a vision of a world without nuclear power in the city, where atomic bombs killed tens of thousands of people in 1945. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will host the leaders of G-7 member states on May 19-21 for the annual summit in Hiroshima city. Japan has hosted six G-7 summits so far - in 1979, 1986, and 1993 in the capital Tokyo, in 2000 in Kyushu-Okinawa, in 2008 in Hokkaido, and in 2016 in Mie. The last one was hosted by then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who died due to a gunshot last year in the Ise-Shima area of the central Mie province. It is the first time over the past seven years that Japan is hosting the G-7 summit. One of the two nuclear-bombed cities of Japan during World War II, Hiroshima, also, the locus of world peace and the Japanese economy, is set to host this year's G-7 meeting.

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