Japan PM eager to aim for nuclear-free world at G-7 Hiroshima summit

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Thursday to pave the way for achieving his cherished goal of a world without nuclear weapons at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, a day before it opens in the western city devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945.Earlier in the day, Kishida arrived in Hiroshima, with stringent security in place, to host the first G-7 summit in Japan in seven years, following the one held in the Ise-Shima area of Mie Prefecture, central Japan, under then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.During the three-day summit from Friday, Kishida, who represents Hiroshima as …READ FULL ARTICLE