Barack Obama will make a historic trip to Hiroshima in two weeks, becoming the first sitting president to visit one of the two Japanese cities devastated by atomic bombs dropped by the US during the second world war.
The White House said Mr Obama would visit the southwestern Japanese city with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to “highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons”.
For decades, a presidential visit has been thwarted by competing sensitivities over whether the US should apologise for the attack.
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