On August 9, 2024, G7 ambassadors, including the U.S. and U.K., boycotted Nagasaki's peace memorial ceremony due to the exclusion of Israel. Mayor Shiro Suzuki cited security concerns amid ongoing Middle East tensions. This decision has sparked diplomatic backlash and raised questions about the implications for international relations.
The decision to exclude Israel from the Nagasaki memorial ceremony stems from escalating tensions in the Middle East, particularly the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Mayor Shiro Suzuki expressed concerns about potential protests disrupting the event, which commemorates the victims of the atomic bombing in 1945.
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Israel, formally known as the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries and the Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasak
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Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician who served as the 55th mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 23rd White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010, and as a member of the United States
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Japan is an island country of East Asia in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It borders the Sea of Japan to the west and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south.
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Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city had an estimated population of 2.089 million. The gross domestic product in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US $61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi
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The United States of America, commonly known as the United States or America, is a country mostly located in central North America, between Canada and Mexico.
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Gilad Cohen (Hebrew: גלעד כהן) (born October 11, 1967) is an Israeli diplomat in the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cohen serves as the Ambassador of Israel to Japan since October 2021.
From 2017 to 2021, he served as the Deputy Director Gener
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Shiro Suzuki (鈴木 史朗, 鈴木 史郎, Suzuki Shirō, born 10 February 1938 in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture) is a Japanese announcer and tarento. He was born in Kamigamo Shrine of the Shinto shrine of bushi samurais. After being a Tokyo Broadcast
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Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Covering an area of 17,125,200 square kilometres, it is the largest country in the world by area, spanning more than one-eighth of the Earth's in
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Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, four-wheel drive vehicles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of ot
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Fumio Kishida is a Japanese politician and the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan from 2012 to 2017. He is a member of the House of Representatives and the Liberal Democratic Party.
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The Gaza Strip, or simply Gaza, is a self-governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, that borders Egypt on the southwest for 11 kilometers and Israel on the east and north along a 51 km border.