In Hiroshima, Biden promises Japan nuclear umbrella

The US president met with Japanese PM Kishida ahead of the G7 summit

The US will defend Japan with atomic weapons if necessary, the Japanese government announced on Thursday, citing the readout of a meeting between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The discussion took place in the city of Hiroshima, infamously destroyed by a US nuclear bomb in 1945.

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