Protesters carried posters with anti-war slogans, as well as placards with statements against the G7 summit being held in the city. The speakers were accompanied by a large number of policemen.
“Today we gathered about 350 people. About a third are students,” Ryo Miyahara, one of the organizers of the rally, told the agency. He said protests would take place every day of the summit and announced another action on May 19. After that, protesters should head to the Atomic Bomb Dome, where the memorial to those who died in the events of August 6, 1945 is located.
It was to him that the leaders of the G7 countries laid wreaths during the opening ceremony of the summit of the organization, writes The Guardian.
Prior to this, heads of state also visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, but it is unclear – the press was not allowed with them – whether they entered only the wing, which shows the dangers of nuclear weapons, or examined the Main Hall, where photographs of the terrible injuries they received from local residents due to a nuclear explosion.
Joe Biden has become the second sitting US president to visit Hiroshima. Before him, his colleague from the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, did it. Admittedly, none of them apologized for the American attack.
In total, after the explosion of an American nuclear bomb over the city, according to Japanese data, 333,907 people died, of which from 60 to 80 thousand – instantly, the rest – from radiation, burns and other injuries.
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