Showing posts with label Hiroshima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hiroshima. Show all posts

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Apologize for Hiroshima and Nagasaki? First we need more empathy

Raw: Obama Visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial President Obama laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday. It was ahistoric visit, the first of a sitting U.S. president to either Hiroshima or Nagasaki since the end of the Pacific War in 1945.In both Japan and the United States, an emotional controversy hadsimmered over whether Obama would or should apologize for the atomic bombings....
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Krauthammer: Obama Hiroshima Speech "Embarrassing" "Implicit Apology Dishonored Our Nation"

President Obama Return from Hiroshima at MCAS Iwakuni, Air Force One - 広島訪問後にエアフォースワンで帰国するオバマ大統領 SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERFriday on Fox News Channels Special Report during the All-Star Panel segment, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama for the speech he had given at Hiroshima, the site where the first atomic bomb had been dropped, earlier in the day.SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERAlthough...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

Hiroshima: Then and now

Obama hugs Hiroshima survivor 12 photos: Hiroshima: Then and nowThen: The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall was destroyed by an atomic bomb in August 1945. The United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, killing an estimated 70,000 people instantly.12 photos: Hiroshima: Then and nowNow: Visitors gather in front of what is now the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Thursday, May 26.12...
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