Hiroshima mayor, A-bomb survivor pin hopes on new PM Kishida

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and atomic bombing survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow urged Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday to take an active role in realizing a world free of nuclear weapons.Matsui expressed hope that Kishida, who hails from a political family in Hiroshima, will take the initiative by making use of his experience as a foreign minister. The mayor urged the Japanese government to participate as an observer in a conference next year of the parties of the U.N. treaty to ban nuclear arms.Japan -- the only country to have suffered atomic bombings, in Hi…READ FULL ARTICLE