G7 leaders, spouses take in Hiroshima's culinary, cultural charms

The world near to a third world War and those clowns just make stupidities like this...

Pathetic circus...

Traditional Japanese food?

Fried chicken with white rice?

They are having beef? What about setting an example by dining on lab meat as they have been telling the rest of us to do? The amount of environmental destruction that cattle farming causes is horrific, after all, right?

Living it up.

Clearly inflation and the spiralling cost of food, energy and living is beyond these people in their parallel universe.

An experience many more should partake in when visiting Japan with its rich culinary diversity. They may come away from the experience with a love for making and consuming this Japanese staple. It is not at all hard to do and you make it with the ingredients you like. So many variations possible its a great food choice.

Nice to see that they can take a break from the backbreaking work of sleeping through meetings!

(sarcasm)

This elevates Japan’s status and cost much less than the Olympics.

Nice to see that they can take a break from the backbreaking work of sleeping through meetings!

More opportunities to snooze - when Gagaku music kicks in, you'll be in a deep. deep sleep and you'd be lucky to excape a vegetative state after a tea ceremony.

Welcome to Japan. Welcome to Hiroshima.

Facing the Seto Inland Sea, Hiroshima is synonymous in Japan with fresh oysters, okonomiyaki savory pancakes, and picturesque views from tourist draw Miyajima Island.

The leaders' working dinner Friday at a traditional inn on the island featured a collection of regional specialties, including sake-steamed oysters, deep-fried bean curd skin roll with crab and grilled bamboo shoots.

They were also served Hiba Gyu, or beef from Japanese Black wagyu cattle, which are raised in the relatively cool conditions found in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Shobara.

The dessert menu comprised a selection of Japanese sweets, including local favorite momiji manju, a doughy maple leaf-shaped confectionary made of flour that is typically filled with azuki bean paste.

Earlier in the day they visited Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage site on the island that dates back to 593, while gagaku music traditionally performed there was played.

As part of the partners program, Yuko Kishida, wife of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, led four of the leaders' partners in a visit to the Ueda Soko Ryu tea ceremony school's Wafudo villa in Hiroshima, where they enjoyed a traditional Japanese multicourse kaiseki lunch and were treated to a tea ceremony demonstration.

Yuko Kishida helped show the partners the traditional way to enjoy the tea.

Cool. :)

We should be charging these “leaders” ¥10,000,000 an Okonomiyaki.

May each and every fellow mortal be blessed with food and drink worldwide.

toraToday  02:02 pm JST

They are having beef? What about setting an example by dining on lab meat as they have been telling the rest of us to do? The amount of environmental destruction that cattle farming causes is horrific, after all, right?

These people are nothing if not raging hypocrites. Best to ignore or oppose every pronouncement they and their owners make.

Most oysters are from Iwate and Hiroshima is famous for noodle okonomiyaki. Can’t see noodles in the photo.

Great and tasty oysters from Hiroshima and Okayama.

okonomiyaki savory pancakes,

Who the heck is writing this detritus?

I know G7 leaders shouldn't be munching on McDonald's, but articles like this certainly belie the seriousness of holding these summits, especially in times of crises.

All unmasked except for the Japanese in the corner...

Just a circus