Nikkei: Obama to Visit Hiroshima

A leading Japanese newspaper says U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima when he goes to Japan next month for a G-7 summit. A stop at Hiroshima would make Obama the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city that was devastated when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on it, leading to the end of World War II. The bombing of Hiroshima resulted in the deaths of about 140,000 people.  Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on the Japanese port city of Nagasaki,...

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