Biden excursions 1,400-year-old shrine in Hiroshima with G7 leaders | World News

US President Joe Biden along with G7 leaders on Saturday toured a 1,400-year-old shrine in Hiroshima, Japan, the White Residence said. ‘President Biden toured the 1,400-year-old Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima with G7 leaders,” The White Residence tweeted.

The 1,400-year-old shrine is located on the island of Itsukushima (popularly typically known as Miyajima). It’s greatest acknowledged for its “floating” torii gate.

It’s located in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, and is accessible by the use of ferry from the mainland.

On Friday, Group of Seven (G7) leaders laid wreaths on the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan’s Hiroshima. Moreover they planted saplings at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

After laying wreaths on the Hiroshima Memorial, the G7 leaders posed for a picture collectively.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, European Council President Charles Michel, US President Joe Biden, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Payment President Ursula von der Leyen posed for the picture.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (Genbaku Dome) – the one development left standing throughout the house, depicting the aftermath the place the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped in town on August 6, 1945.

The G7 leaders are in the intervening time in Japan to attend the G7 Summit scheduled to be held in Hiroshima from Might 19-21. Notably, Japan assumed the G7 Presidency in 2023.

The G7 Summit is a world dialogue board held yearly for the leaders of the G7 member states of France, the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada (in order of rotating presidency), and the European Union (EU).

Notably, the G7 grouping consists of Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US, the UK and Germany. Japan beneath its G7 Presidency has invited leaders from Australia, Brazil, Comoros, Put together dinner Islands, India, Indonesia, South Korea and Vietnam, primarily based on the assertion.

Moreover, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday moreover departed for Japan to attend the G7 Summit in Hiroshima.

PM Modi in an announcement sooner than his departure, said that he’ll go away for Japan to attend the G7 Summit on the invitation of Japanese PM Fumio Kishida.

He said that his presence on the G7 Summit is particularly important as India this yr holds the G20 Presidency.