Japan PM to announce new U.N. fund to encourage people to visit atomic bombing sites.

August 1, 2022

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to announce the creation of a $10 million (¥1.33 billion) U.N. fund to encourage young people around the world to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where atomic bombs were dropped in 1945.
PM Kishida will detail the plan during a speech at a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
He will also express his desire for early enactment of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and host summit-level talks in September geared toward that purpose.
Kishida is scheduled to attend the conference during a three-day trip to the United States, becoming the first Japanese prime minister to do so.