Japan is increasingly concerned about a series of recent comments by US officials justifying the August 1945 atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Many in the United States have a positive view of the atomic bombings in the final days of World War II. Tokyo, which opposes the use of nuclear weapons, has informed Washington of its position but has struggled to deal with the series of comments.
During a meeting of the United States Congress on May 8, Lindsey Graham, an influential Republican senator, made a comment defending the atomic bombings. Graham is close to former US President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in November’s presidential election.