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G-7 leaders are expected to visit Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park during their meeting that starts Friday. Photo: richard a. brooks/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesNearly 78 years ago, around a Hiroshima bridge not far from where President Biden is scheduled to meet world leaders this week, a 4-year-old boy named Eiji Kishida was walking with his mother. The U.S. atomic bomb dropped by the Enola Gay exploded above them, less than a mile away. An aunt of the boy who was also in Hiroshima that day recounted what she saw when she found Eiji soon afterward. He kept begging for water in a faint voice until his death released him from agony.”

Being able to set the nation’s own trade policy was a key economic draw for many who supported the U.K. leaving the European Union. The U.K. government said it had struck a deal to join the Pacific trade alliance the U.S. exited under former President Donald Trump, as Britain looks to diversify trade away from Europe after Brexit. The U.K. will become the first European country to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, known as the TPP. The club of 11 countries largely spans the Indo-Pacific region and includes nations such as Japan, Canada, Chile and Vietnam.

President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are meeting at the White House on Friday. President Biden met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Friday as the U.S. and Japan increase security cooperation to counter China’s military buildup. “To be crystal clear, the United States is fully, thoroughly, completely committed to the alliance—and more importantly to Japan’s defense,” Mr. Biden said, kicking off their meeting in the Oval Office.

President Biden will meet at the White House on Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as the U.S. and Japan increase security cooperation to counter China’s military buildup. U.S. officials said the meeting between the two leaders will follow up on meetings in Washington earlier this week between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin , Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their Japanese counterparts. Following that meeting, the two countries announced plans to protect Japanese satellites, equip Tokyo with long-range missiles and upgrade U.S. Marine forces in the country.

He has met the emperor and welcomed President Biden to his home, but Rahm Emanuel said an equally thrilling moment as ambassador to Japan came when he was offered a ride in the conductor’s cabin of a bullet train. His eyes opened wide. The train races toward Tokyo at more than 150 miles an hour. “Yeah, I want to! If you’ll let me,” Mr. Emanuel, 63, recalled saying.

Australia and Japan said that they would deepen defense cooperation and that Japanese forces would train in Australia’s north, the latest move by U.S. allies to respond to strategic tensions with China. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan made the announcements after meeting in the western Australian city of Perth. The leaders said they agreed to update an existing 2007 security declaration between the two countries, reflecting the growing alignment between both nations.

Australia and Japan said they would deepen defense cooperation and that Japanese forces would train in Australia’s north, the latest move by U.S. allies to respond to growing strategic tensions with China. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan made the announcements after meeting in the western Australian city of Perth. The leaders said they agreed to update an existing 2007 security declaration between the two countries, reflecting the growing alignment between both nations.

The leaders of Japan and South Korea held their first bilateral meeting in nearly three years, another step toward recovery for frayed ties between two of the U.S.’s key Asian allies. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for roughly 30 minutes Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Both leaders attended and gave U.N. floor speeches.

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