Japan to host 2023 G-7 Summit in Hiroshima May 19-21

MUNICH, 29 June 2022, (TON): Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio said “Japan will host the 2023 Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima on May 19-21.”

Japan will hold the rotating presidency of the G-7 major powers next year. Kishida is a lawmaker elected from a constituency in the western Japan city, hit by a US atomic bomb in August 1945 near the end of World War II.

Kishida told a news conference in the German city of Munich “toward the Hiroshima summit, “we’ll make sure to deepen discussions on realistic measures toward the achievement of a world without nuclear weapons.”

He stressed “we want to show the world a powerful commitment never to repeat the horror of nuclear weapons.”

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