| President Obama has landed in the Hiroshima area. He will be the first sitting president to visit the city. |
Friday, May 27, 2016 2:37 AM EDT |
| President Obama landed Friday at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, outside Hiroshima, Japan, beginning a historic visit that he hopes will bolster an important ally and remind the world of the dangers of nuclear weapons. |
| The visit, the first by a sitting president to the city on which the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, could send ripples across Asia, a region still grappling with the echoes of World War II seven decades after it ended. Leaders in both China and South Korea worry that Mr. Obama’s visit to Japan’s deepest wound could be taken by the Japanese as an endpoint to their country’s fitful efforts to come to grips with its wartime aggression. |
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Friday, 27 May 2016
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