Tokyo - Cuban First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, traveled today the Japanese city of Hiroshima, once the site of the first atomic bombing in history, by the U.S. Army.

Diaz-Canel, on an official visit in this nation, will visit the Atomic Bomb Museum along with Deputy Foreign Minister, Rogelio Sierra, Cuba's ambassador to Japan, Marcos Rodriguez Costa, and other members of his accompanying delegation.

During the visit to that city, founded in 1589 on the coast of the Seta Inland Sea by feudal lord, Mōri Terumoto, and destroyed on August 6, 1945, during the World War II by a U.S. atomic attack, the Cuban first vice president will hold talks with Hiroshima Mayor, Matsui Kazumi.

The Japanese Parliamentary League of Friendship with Cuba received the top Cuban official early today and a high interest in advancing trade and political cooperation with Havana was shown.

After welcoming Diaz-Canel, who is on his second day of official visit here today, Keiji Furuya, chairman of the Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League, reviewed the progress of the bilateral relations, especially in the last two years.

The Japanese congresswoman recalled her stay in Havana in 2014, when a delegation of more than 230 members held several exchanges in the Caribbean nation and participated in a ceremony for the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival to Cuba of the first Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga.

Diaz-Canel expressed gratitude for the role the League has carried out in the development of the bilateral ties and invited the Asian nation to learn on the updating of the economic model, the new foreign investment law and the Mariel Special Development Zone to increase the presence of Japanese businessmen in Cuba.

The top Cuban leader, who will end on June 3 his visit in this archipelago, made up of 6,852 islands, talked yesterday with 25 members representing the Japan-Cuba Economic Conference. Diaz-Canel invited them to expand and promote trade relations to support the development of the Caribbean country.