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Pope Francis landed this Saturday, Nov. 23 in Tokyo for a four-day visit to Japan, where he will notably plead Sunday for nuclear disarmament from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, martyrdom cities of the atomic bomb.
With our correspondent in Tokyo, Frédéric Charles
This trip to Japan is the second and last part of an Asian tour of the pontiff that first took him to Thailand this week , where he focused on religious tolerance.
Before his trip to the Land of the Rising Sun, Pope Francis had the picture of a little boy carrying on his back, in the ruins of Nagasaki, the corpse of brother .
Francis should be the first pope to declare in Nagasaki and Hiroshima the moral illegitimacy of the possession of nuclear weapons. So far, the Vatican was content to rise up against the destructive power of the bomb and considered nuclear deterrence as a lesser evil. For the Jesuit Pope, to have atomic weapons is to threaten to use them, one must question their possession.
In Japan, the memory of the nuclear horror is fading and the Nagasaki and Hiroshima countries have not signed the UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, perhaps because it depends for his security of the US nuclear umbrella. But in the face of a North Korea declaring itself a nuclear power and also facing the rise of China, Japan wants to maintain a nuclear capacity despite the accident of Fukushima to equip itself in turn, if necessary, the bomb atomic.