Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in his speech about Hiroshima, never named the country that dropped the atomic bomb on the city during World War II. In 1945, the US military dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, which led to large-scale destruction and mass death of civilians.

On August 6, UN Secretary-General António Guterres took part in a ceremony in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the same time, he did not say a word about the United States, which dropped nuclear bombs on these cities.