Barack Obama In Hiroshima

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 paid moving tribute to victims of the first atomic bomb today and called for a world free of nuclear weapons, during a historic and emotional visit to Hiroshima.

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

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.

A group representing Korean victims of the US atomic bombings of Japan protested today that their suffering was being neglected ahead of President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima.

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.

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 will go the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima right after a G7 summit in Japan late next month, the Nikkei business daily reported today, in what would be the first such visit by a sitting US leader.

The White House is considering a possible visit by President Barack Obama to Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated in history's first atomic bombing at the close of World War II, a US official told AFP.

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 paid moving tribute to victims of the first atomic bomb today and called for a world free of nuclear weapons, during a historic and emotional visit to Hiroshima.

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

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.

A group representing Korean victims of the US atomic bombings of Japan protested today that their suffering was being neglected ahead of President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima.

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.

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 will go the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima right after a G7 summit in Japan late next month, the Nikkei business daily reported today, in what would be the first such visit by a sitting US leader.

The White House is considering a possible visit by President Barack Obama to Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated in history's first atomic bombing at the close of World War II, a US official told AFP.