The British and American ambassadors will not attend the ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing over the snub.
The United States and United Kingdom have decided not to participate in a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki after Israel was not invited to the event.
Mayor Suzuki Shiro said in June that the southern Japanese city would not invite Israel and last week said that Israel’s ambassador Gilad Cohen was not invited to Friday’s event because of the risks of protests over the Gaza conflict.
The U.S. and British embassies in Tokyo on Wednesday announced that their ambassadors would not be attending the event—Rahm Emanuel for the U.S. and Julia Longbottom for the U.K. Instead, lower-ranking diplomats will attend.