Not sitting US president has ever gone to Hisoshima. But Obama may change that and go to apologize for America again. More than 70 years after World War II, rumors are swirling that Obama will head off to the Japanese city to apologize for those ‘evil Americans’ who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
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No sitting U.S. president has ever visited Hiroshima or Nagasaki, each of which was obliterated by U.S. atomic bombs in August 1945 in the closing days of World War II.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Hiroshima on Sunday for the two-day meeting of the Group of 7 foreign ministers, the first-ever visit there by the top U.S. diplomat.
On Monday, Kerry and his G-7 counterparts are scheduled to pay a visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
The paper said, “White House advisers are closely watching his time there as a prelude to a possible Obama trip.
“The White House is well aware of the potential for domestic criticism around a Hiroshima trip, especially in an election year. Republicans have consistently portrayed Obama’s foreign policy as feckless and weak,” it also said.
On a possible visit to Hiroshima by Obama, Rose Gottemoeller, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, told reporters last month that “it’s under consideration” at the White House.