HIROSHIMA: Security is tight at every G7 summit, but this year's host Japan has more to prove than most, after an attack last month on the prime minister and the 2022 assassination of ex-premier Shinzo Abe. About 24,000 security personnel are reportedly being deployed to Hiroshima during the summit, most d
HIROSHIMA: Security is tight at every G7 summit, but this year's host Japan has more to prove than most, after an attack last month on the prime minister and the 2022 assassination of ex-premier Shinzo Abe.
Security personnel were also motoring up and down the river that runs alongside sites like the Atomic Bomb Dome, with helicopters regularly buzzing overhead. Coin lockers, which are common in many stations, have been put out of operation at major stations as far afield as Tokyo. The measures are likely to be closely scrutinised less than a year after a gunman assassinated former prime minister Abe as he campaigned in the city of Nara.shortly before he was due to deliver a campaign speech in the city of Wakayama.
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