Japan lawmakers may attend U.N. nuclear ban meeting, Ishiba to skip

Lawmakers from Japan's ruling parties may attend a convention of signatories to a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty in New York this March, but no government representatives will attend, government sources said Saturday.Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to skip the event to be held ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this year.The plan comes as Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group, which won last year's Nobel Peace Prize, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's coalition partner Komeito have urged the prime minister to p…READ FULL ARTICLE