Pope Francis arrives in Japan to promote anti-nuclear message

Pope Francis arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan on November 23, 2019. [Reuters]

Pope Francis arrived on Saturday in Japan, the second leg of a week-long Asian trip whose main aim is to bring an anti-nuclear message to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the world’s only cities to suffer atomic bombing in wartime.

Francis, a determined anti-nuclear campaigner who will read a message on nuclear weapons in Nagasaki, will also meet survivors of the March 11, 2011, nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.