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Japan’s Kishida to push for a ‘world without nuclear weapons’ at G-7, but faces impossible task

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Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants to use the Group of Seven (G-7) Leaders’ Summit in his home constituency of Hiroshima this weekend to

“promote a world without nuclear weapons”

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There is arguably nowhere more fitting for his mission.

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