Obama On Hiroshima

President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised the alliance between Japan and the United States, exactly 75 years after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that led to America's entrance into World War II.

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Tuesday marked 71 years since its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with its mayor lauding a visit by US President Barack Obama to Hiroshima earlier this year.

Japan marked the 71st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Saturday as its mayor urged world leaders to follow in US President Barack Obama's footsteps and visit, and ultimately rid the world of nuclear arms.

Barack Obama on Friday paid moving tribute to victims of the world's first nuclear attack.

President Barack Obama hailed the "great alliance" between the United States and Japan Friday, just hours ahead of his historic visit to Hiroshima.

Barack Obama, the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, will lay a wreath on Friday at the site of the world's first atomic bombing, which killed thousands instantly.

On Friday, President Obama participates in the latest episode of a long healing process from World War II, when he becomes the first U.S. commander-in-chief to visit Hiroshima since the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb there Aug. 6, 1945.

The atomic blast in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 killed 140,000 people; tens of thousands died instantly, while the rest succumbed to injuries or illness in the weeks, months and years afterwards.

Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima will underline the dangers of warfare and the need to work towards peace, the US president said on the sidelines of the G7 in Japan, today.

US President Barack Obama will not apologise for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on his landmark visit this week, he told Japanese public broadcaster NHK in an interview.

A group representing American former prisoners of war under Japan says the White House has invited one of them to accompany President Barack Obama on his historic visit to Hiroshima this week.

Barack Obama departed on Saturday on a trip to Vietnam and Japan that will include the first visit to Hiroshima, site of the world's first nuclear attack, by a sitting US president.

Japanese atomic bomb survivors say an apology from President Barack Obama for the US bombing of Hiroshima would be welcome, but their priority is on ridding the world of all nuclear weapons forever.

Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed Wednesday said they aren't seeking an apology.

Barack Obama will become the first US president to visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month, but he will not apologise for the United States' dropping of an atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War Two, the White House said on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised the alliance between Japan and the United States, exactly 75 years after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that led to America's entrance into World War II.

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Tuesday marked 71 years since its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with its mayor lauding a visit by US President Barack Obama to Hiroshima earlier this year.

Japan marked the 71st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Saturday as its mayor urged world leaders to follow in US President Barack Obama's footsteps and visit, and ultimately rid the world of nuclear arms.

Barack Obama on Friday paid moving tribute to victims of the world's first nuclear attack.

President Barack Obama hailed the "great alliance" between the United States and Japan Friday, just hours ahead of his historic visit to Hiroshima.

Barack Obama, the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, will lay a wreath on Friday at the site of the world's first atomic bombing, which killed thousands instantly.

On Friday, President Obama participates in the latest episode of a long healing process from World War II, when he becomes the first U.S. commander-in-chief to visit Hiroshima since the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb there Aug. 6, 1945.

The atomic blast in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 killed 140,000 people; tens of thousands died instantly, while the rest succumbed to injuries or illness in the weeks, months and years afterwards.

Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima will underline the dangers of warfare and the need to work towards peace, the US president said on the sidelines of the G7 in Japan, today.

US President Barack Obama will not apologise for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on his landmark visit this week, he told Japanese public broadcaster NHK in an interview.

A group representing American former prisoners of war under Japan says the White House has invited one of them to accompany President Barack Obama on his historic visit to Hiroshima this week.

Barack Obama departed on Saturday on a trip to Vietnam and Japan that will include the first visit to Hiroshima, site of the world's first nuclear attack, by a sitting US president.

Japanese atomic bomb survivors say an apology from President Barack Obama for the US bombing of Hiroshima would be welcome, but their priority is on ridding the world of all nuclear weapons forever.

Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed Wednesday said they aren't seeking an apology.

Barack Obama will become the first US president to visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month, but he will not apologise for the United States' dropping of an atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War Two, the White House said on Tuesday.