Hiroshima mayor says majority back 2020 plan

The mayor of Hiroshima says 70 per cent of the city's citizens support the proposal to bid for the 2020 Olympics along with Nagasaki. The only cities to have suffered nuclear attacks announced they were considering a bid earlier this month following...

The mayor of Hiroshima says 70 per cent of the city's citizens support the proposal to bid for the 2020 Olympics along with Nagasaki.

The only cities to have suffered nuclear attacks announced they were considering a bid earlier this month following Tokyo's defeat in the race to stage the 2016 Games.

"We plan to examine the possibility with the utmost care to reach a conclusion as many people as possible will agree with," Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki - located in Japan's southern-must Kyushu island - are separated by more than 300 kilometres.

Sign up to our free newsletters

Get the best updates straight to your inbox:

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing.