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HIROSHIMA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2016
Obama makes history, confronts past in Hiroshima
The U.S. president paid tribute to atomic bombing victims, reaffirmed U.S.-Japan ties and called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 27, 2016
Full text of Obama's speech in Hiroshima
Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2016
Obama visits Hiroshima to ponder 'terrible force unleashed'
Barack Obama on Friday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, laying a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing in a gesture Tokyo and Washington hope will showcase their alliance and invigorate efforts to eradicate nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 27, 2016
Obama latest in long list of notable people to visit Hiroshima
Barack Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, the scene of the atomic bombing ordered 71 years ago.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 26, 2016
Hiroshima visit highlights risks of nuclear weapons
To truly pay homage to those whose lives were lost or irrevocably altered by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, U.S. President Barack Obama's visit must galvanize the international community to move without delay toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 26, 2016
A timely reminder of our unfinished business
U.S. President Barack Obama is likely going to Hiroshima not because it is a symbol of the past, but rather to use it as a warning for the future.
JAPAN
May 26, 2016
On eve of Obama's visit, calls to revise SOFA grow in Hiroshima
On the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, residents and hibakusha on Thursday expressed support for calls to revise the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement following the suspected rape and murder of a 20-year-old Japanese woman in Okinawa Prefecture by a former marine....
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
Obama's Hiroshima visit reveals progress of reconciliation, disagreements over history
When it comes to hibakusha and the victorious Americans, one can expect a portrait of contrasts.
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
WWII fighter pilot's Japan experience: From foe to family
The long and circuitous life of 92-year-old World War II veteran Jerry Yellin reads like a work of fiction.
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
Hibakusha recalls horror of bombing, pain of stigmatization and road to healing
It took Tamiko Shiraishi nearly seven decades before she could come to terms with her experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 25, 2016
U.S. sees wars' end through the prism of Hiroshima
Post-World War II belief that anything less than unconditional surrender is defeat has cost the U.S. dearly, in blood and treasure.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 25, 2016
Let Obama's Hiroshima visit open up debate in the U.S. about the nuclear attacks
Why do Americans have such a difficult time discussing the intentionality behind the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japanese cities?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 25, 2016
Global threats hinder Obama's nuclear disarmament goal
U.S. President Barack Obama's historic Hiroshima visit Friday signifies a step forward in his stated 2009 dream of a "world without nuclear weapons."
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 24, 2016
Hiroshima A-bomb museum chief hopes Obama will visit displays 'as a father'
Should U.S. President Barack Obama opt to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum later this week, Kenji Shiga, its director, is adamant that he wouldn't ask too much.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 24, 2016
Declassified U.S. cables reveal lead-up to Hiroshima A-bomb decision
On Aug. 6, 1945, Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves sent a top secret cable to his superiors in Washington, D.C.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 24, 2016
Prominent scholars urge Obama to use Hiroshima visit to reinvigorate push against nukes
Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit Friday to Hiroshima, a group of more than 70 prominent scholars and activists have joined a growing chorus calling for the American leader to do more in the final months of his term to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
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