Ishiba to mull Japan attendance at nuke ban treaty confab as observer

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Sunday he will give serious thought to the idea of Japan attending as an observer a meeting next year on a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons."I have no intention to make light of it. I will seriously think about it," Ishiba, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party, said on a program with other party leaders on public broadcaster NHK, in response to a suggestion that Japan attend the Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer.Ishiba's predecessor, Fumio Kishida, called for a world free of nuclear weapons, b…READ FULL ARTICLE