A world free of nuclear weapons is his “ultimate goal,” Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba has said
Seeing a world without nuclear weapons is an “ultimate goal,” Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Saturday. The politician described what he called a shocking experience of seeing a video of the US bombing the Japanese city of Hiroshima and stated that he wanted to ensure that such tragedies could never happen again.
Ishiba was speaking on the day after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Japanese anti-nuclear-weapons organization founded by the survivors of the US attacks. Witness testimony provided by the group has demonstrated that “nuclear weapons must never be used again,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
The prime minister was participating in a debate with other party leaders in the run-up to the parliamentary elections later in October when he was asked about his stance on abolishing nuclear arms. “The…