岸田首相、駐日米大使と広島訪問へ　２６日軸

　岸田文雄首相がエマニュエル駐日米大使とともに被爆地・広島市の平和記念公園を訪問する方向で調整していることが分かった。２６日を軸に検討している。東京都と広島県には新型コロナウイルス対策の「まん延防止等重点措置」が適用されているため、感染状況を見極めて最終判断する。政府関係者が１９日、明らかにした。
　首相は広島選出で「核兵器のない世界」への取り組みをライフワークとする。一方、エマニュエル大使は２００９～１０年、核廃絶を訴えた当時のオバマ大統領の下で首席補佐官を務めた。オバマ氏は在任中の１６年に米大統領として初めて広島を訪れた。（2022/02/20-00:32）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel are expected to visit Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park together, Japanese government sources have said.
   The two countries are arranging such a visit for Saturday. They will make a final decision after examining the coronavirus situation as both Hiroshima and Tokyo are under a COVID-19 pre-emergency state.
   Kishida, a member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, is elected from a constituency in Hiroshima, one of the two cities attacked with U.S. atomic bombs during World War II. His lifework is to realize a world without nuclear weapons.
   Emanuel served as adviser to then U.S. President Barack Obama between 2009 and 2010. Obama in 2016 became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the western Japan city.
   In a joint statement on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty issued last month, Tokyo and Washington said that political leaders around the world should visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the other atomic-bombed city.