Kishida, Biden meet ahead of G7 gathering in Hiroshima amid protests, tightened security
STORY: Kishida, Biden meet ahead of G7 gathering in Hiroshima amid protests, tightened security
DATELINE: May 19, 2023
LENGTH: 00:03:12
LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, Japan
CATEGORY: POLITICS
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Japan-U.S. talks
2. various of the protest
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): RYO MIYAHARA, Head of a Hiroshima citizens' group and one of the protests' organizers
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): AKAMINE CHIAKI, College student from Okinawa
STORYLINE:
Japanese and U.S. top leaders on Thursday met in Hiroshima prior to the larger gathering of Group of Seven (G7) nations, overshadowed by protests and a tense atmosphere.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who holds the G7's rotating presidency and will host a three-day G7 summit which starts Friday, held talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday evening in the western Japanese city.
Hiroshima, devastated by U.S. atomic bombings in 1945, has seen intense demonstrations decrying the bloc days before the summit, while police officers from all over the natio
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