Diplomatic tensions from the Israel–Hamas war have spilled into the annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Japan, with the U.S. ambassador skipping this year’s commemoration, along with senior diplomats of the other G7 nations, because Israel wasn’t invited.
The U.S. Embassy stated that Rahm Emanuel, U.S. ambassador to Japan, would instead honor the victims of the U.S. bombing on Aug. 9, 1945, at a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo.
