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Haunting footage from Hiroshima 10 years before it was nuked
Newly digitally remastered footage shows daily life in the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1935. A nuclear bomb was dropped on the city in August 1945, destroying the bustling metropolis...
Just 1,500 survivors remain as Pearl Harbor readies for 75th anniversary
Only about 1,500 survivors remain of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which will be commemorated Wednesday at the 75th anniversary. It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt who said the...
Hiroshima unhappy atomic-bomb memorial is Pokemon Go site
TOKYO — "Pokemon Go" players are descending on an atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima, and officials of the western Japanese city are displeased. They have asked game developer Niantic...
Obama talks peace, courage in historic visit to Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Barack Obama paid tribute Friday to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 victims of the atomic bomb dropped 71 years ago on Hiroshima, and called on...
Obama's shameful apology tour lands in Hiroshima
An American president’s highest moral, constitutional and political duty is protecting his fellow citizens from foreign threats. Presidents should adhere to our values and the Constitution, and not treat America’s...
Obama's Hiroshima drama is irrelevant to Asia's real fears
In Hiroshima on Friday, President Obama will imagine an alternative universe where no one fears nukes ever again. But in the real Asia, including Japan, people mostly dread the rise...
Susan Rice will not debate United States' decision to bomb Japan
In the wake of President Obama’s announcement that he would become the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, National Security Adviser Susan Rice declined to say Sunday if America was...
Obama to pay historic visit to Hiroshima
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month in the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the US dropped an atomic bomb....
At Hiroshima, Obama should make a pledge, not an apology
President Obama hasn’t said yet whether he’ll visit Hiroshima when he’s in Japan next month. But he’s being encouraged to do so and even, by some, to apologize for America’s...