Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing on Friday, using the moment to call for a world without nuclear weapons, NBC News reported. Some ...

Japanese media on Monday put the squeeze on Secretary of State John Kerry to get President Obama to visit a memorial in Hiroshima, but Kerry refused to definitively say that Obama would visit before ...

Nearly 71 years after the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb, President Barack Obama made an unprecedented journey here to offer a solemn tribute to the tens of thousands of victims ...

Hiroshima (CNN)President Obama's Air Force One has landed at Iwakuni Marine Air Station, ahead of a historic visit to Hiroshima, the first by a sitting U.S. President to the site of the world's first ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Edwin M. Yoder Jr. Special to the Observer President Obama might not apologize for ...

President Obama wraps up a weeklong Asia trip on Friday with a historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan. Obama will be the first sitting president to visit the city synonymous with the deadly nuclear age ...

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WASHINGTON — Eager to heal old wounds and galvanize new generations, President Barack Obama this month will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, where seven decades ago the ...

President Barack Obama will be visiting Hiroshima later this month while in Japan for the G-7 summit, the White House confirmed Tuesday. Suggested Reading Black Man Who Saved Baby From Viral Pit Bull ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Barack Obama, the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, laid a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing on Friday, a symbolic gesture that Tokyo ...