Toranosuke Takeshita Explained

was the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from 1981 to 1993.[1]

In August 1990, while participating in a symposium in Hiroshima, he publicly called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to visit Hiroshima.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Zwigenberg, Ran . Hiroshima . 15 September 2014 . . 9781107071278 . 292.
  2. Web site: In expectation of President Gorbachev's first visit to Hiroshima . https://web.archive.org/web/20050428030733/http://www.hiroshima-soka.jp/eng/taiwa/tai1_g2.html . 28 April 2005 . 24 August 2024.